KASTEN KONNEKT IS HERE!
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K10 4.5.12 Release adds New RBAC DASHBOARD
Kasten version 4.5.12 was just released and with it came a great addition. RBAC permissions in Kubernetes can be difficult to setup on the command line. This is especially true for administrators new to Kubernetes. Now K10 as a simple web interface to help perform this task, the RBAC Dashboard. To access the RBAC dashboard go to settings then User Roles: In a fresh install you will see 2 roles already present kasten-io-k10-k10-admin and kasten-io-k10-k10-ns-admin. We will now create a new role by pressing on the New Assignment button. I want to create a role for the junior-it-dept, giving them only k10-basic rights and restricting them only to my Nginx application: All done. For those of you familiar to Veeam Enterprise Manager this should be familiar. The subjects that you add (users, or groups) must be somehow present already in the cluster. That will be the subject for another blog!
Veeam Vanguards and Legends
Yesterday I received an email announcing that I had been accepted into the Veeam Vanguard community. A few weeks earlier I had been renewed as a Veeam Legend. The events taking place right now in the world made me think even more about what exactly the word “community” means. The Veeam Legends and Vanguards come from various different places and backgrounds. For many, English is not their native language nevertheless we all find a common language in our enthusiasm for Veeam. I have worked with Veeam products since approximately 2013 and they have played a huge role in my professional advancement and success. However, I am not being deceitful when I say that some of the best memories associated with Veeam are not the emails that begin with the words “Congratulations” nor the great VeeamON parties and swag. The moments that I remember most are when with the help of Veeam software I was…
MicroK8s and OpenEBS
MicroK8s is a Kubernetes distribution from Canonical. It runs on Ubuntu and is advertised as a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, offering high availability and automatic updates. Today I going to setup a single node MicroK8s cluster and leverage OpenEBS storage for dynamic allocation. You can choose to install MicroK8S during the OS ubuntu as one of the extra packages install options or simply run the snap command on an existing system: sudo snap install microk8s --classic MicroK8S comes with kubectl baked in but by default it is in this form microK8S.kubectl. When I first run it I get some instructions about my permissions: I will run both commands and try again sudo usermod -a -G microk8s $USERsudo chown -f -R $USER ~/.kube After running newgrp microk8s I can see my node Typing microk8s.kubectl is going to be a nuisance so I will create and alias in my .bashrc file Then you can either logout login…
I NEED GREAT IPAM DNS INTEGRATION SOLUTION = POWERDNS AND PHPIPAM
If you want a powerful and flexible DNS solution that can hook in with IP Management, then look no further than PowerDNS with PHPIPAM. Today I am going to install PowerDNS, the PowerDNS Recursor, and PHPIpam. As a pre-requisite I will be using an Ubuntu 20.04 server OS. Part1 MYSQL , Part2 POWERDNS, Part 3 PDNS-RECURSOR, Part 4 PHPIPAM PART ONE INSTALLING MYSQL PowerDNS stores its records in a database. I am going to leverage MySQL. There are also other database backends available like sqlite3, Postgres or even Bind. Before setting up PowerDNS and the PowerDNS recursor I will have to disable Ubuntu’s internal resolver which listens on the DNS port 53. sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved sudo systemctl mask systemd-resolved Don't forget to remove the symlink: Sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf After this I will need to set my DNS nameserver in ubuntu manually: vi /etc/resolv.conf I will add the internet dns…
First Post, it had better be a good one!
First Post, it had better be a good one! Hi Folks, this is the first post on my personal blog. If this is boring or sleep invoking then I am willing to bet that no one will ever come back. So I have decided to start out with some hopefully funny IT humor. Later I will get dreadfully serious when posting about topics like Backup, Data Protection, and all things Kubernetes. The Bad Old Days of Wild West Backups I have been working in IT for a long time. A long time at first sounds cool and adds to the depth of your resume when applying for jobs. However, there comes a time when a long time is no longer that much fun. For example, when one of your co-workers declares "when I was in grade school", and you realize that you were already working at that time. I won't even mention every New…