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

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