Posts tagged k8s

Native K8s Sidecar Containers with gluetun

I tried to use the new Kubernetes native Sidecar Containers introduced since v1.29. The initContainers and pod were stuck in PodInitializing state and the other containers were not starting up.

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External-DNS Policy flag

The behavior of the external-dns --policy flag is not documented in the external-dns docs. After looking at the code and experimentation the flags work like this:

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Deploy to K8s using helm without helm

On many occasions helm is not available directly on my cluster or I do not trust the author. So how can I deploy to my cluster without helm? Luckily helm can be configured to dump the template to on disk yaml manifests that can be applied to the target cluster. If you do not pass include-crds then no CRDs will be output and you will get errors later where CRDs are missing.

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Cert-manager can’t find route53 secret

It seems I did something to delete the original cert-manager Route53 secret, renewals and new certs failed with this error:

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Kubernetes tips

The problem is solved by removing the leading slash after the podname colon separator:

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