Upgrading Longhorn with Helm

For my test Kubernetes cluster, Longhorn is used as the persistent block storage. The installed version is 1.6.2, and the version 1.7.0 is available now. So today, I’m going to share how to perform the Longhorn upgrade using Helm. I’m going to try to do this live as usual. Of course, I already created snapshots for all my K8s nodes in case thing goes south. First, let’s verify the current installed version of Longhorn [1]....

August 23, 2024 · 4 min · 647 words · kenno

Deploy metrics-server in Kubernetes using Helm

This is a short note on how to install metrics-server using Helm on my k8s cluster. $ kubectl version Client Version: v1.29.3 Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3 Server Version: v1.29.3 $ helm version --short v3.14.4+g81c902a Before we can install the chart, we will need to add the metrics-server repo to Helm. $ helm repo add metrics-server https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/ Update the repo: $ helm repo update Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories....

April 24, 2024 · 2 min · 262 words · kenno

How to deploy Uptime Kuma on kubernetes

I’ve been running Uptime Kuma on a podman-container for a long time with no problem. Recently, though, I’ve been running a mini Kubernetes cluster at home, and decided to move this conatainer to the same cluster. The following is to document how I deploy Uptime Kuma on a Kubernetes cluster. As I’m new to Kubernetes world, I broke down the tasks I need to do in 6 pieces: $ ls -1 1....

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · 416 words · kenno

What is in a Longhorn volume?

Do you know? Well, before today, neither did I. I’m pretty late to Kubernetes. I heard about it many hears ago, but unfortunately, I had no need to use it at home or at work. Even today, there is no workload that requires a Kubernetes cluster to run on. However, I think I can’t ignore Kubernetes any longer, and I need to learn about it now, well “better be late than never”, right?...

October 15, 2023 · 2 min · 262 words · kenno

Installing Ingress-Nginx Controller with Helm

In my previous post, I showed how to install helm CLI on a server/instance running AlmaLinux 9. Now, I will share how to use helm to install the Ingress-Nginx Controller for a Kubernetes cluster. We install a package known as “chart” from a Helm repository. Initially, there is no repo, and can be seen below: $ helm repo list Error: no repositories to show In order to install Ingress-Nginx Controller, I first need to add a new repository....

September 26, 2023 · 2 min · 374 words · kenno

Installing HELM Cli on AlmaLinux 9

Recently, I decided to pick up learning Kubernetes again after completely being absent from this world for many years. In this post, I’ll document how to install Helm CLI on AlmaLinx 9. Helm is like a package manager for Kubernetes. Helm CLI can be installed on your local machine, it does not to be installed on the Kubenetes node. However, in order to interact with your Kubernetes cluster, you’ll need to also have kubectl command as well as properly configured it to interact with your Kubernetes cluster....

September 26, 2023 · 1 min · 206 words · kenno