By default, Helm 3 stores all release information in Kubernetes cluster itself using K8s secret in release namespace. We can get release information stored on cluster in secrets using below commands: # List all helm release's secrets kubectl get secrets -A -l "owner=helm" # Get release information from a secret # You will…

When we perform an upgrade, or make a configuration change in an application, there is always little risk that the application may behave unexpected. …

Either its applications update or a clusters upgrade, from infrastructure to application layer, everything must be updated periodically to keep up with latest security issues, features and resolve bugs. Kubernetes releases a new minor version approximately every 4 months (3 times a year). …

GitOps is a practice of operations which uses central git repository (Such as Github or GitLab or any other git repos) as ‘Single Source of Truth’ for a deployment. Deployment configurations are managed and updated directly from git repo. This helps centralizing our application deployment configurations at one place and…

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Sometime you might need to put the application container behind a VPN without putting host server behind it. Reasons can be anything, If application need to access region restricted service, Or for preventing application from prying eyes of ISPs, Or If you are using a BitTorrent client, its always recommended…

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ConfigMaps and Secrets are way to inject environment variables and application configurations to a Pod in Kubernetes. Sometimes and sometime many times, we need to change the value of environment variables or configurations. For that we need to update ConfigMap/Secret. In Kubernetes, When we make some changes to a ConfigMap…

On April 28th, 2022, CERT-IN, Ministry of Electronics and IT, India, has issued a direction to VPN providers to collect and store users’ data including their IP address, contact numbers, email id, purpose of hiring service, timestamp of registration and ownership pattern, for at least 5 years. CERT-IN’s directions are…