Modern Linux desktop distributions contain really powerful settings possibilities, but it is very often difficult to find out how to configure something. You may want, for example, to add –disk-cache-dir flag to Chromium start command in order to configure cache directory, so how to do it?
Scaleway , a French company based in Paris, owned by Illiad telecommunication provider, just announced public availability of their managed Kubernetes solution called Kapsule . Scaleway has 5 data centers, 4 in France and 1 in Netherlands, but at the moment Kapsule (public beta version) is available just in the datacenter in Paris. DigitalOcean just got competition, so we can compare the pricing schemes in the later text.
I’ve just seen a talk on YouTube where running self managed Kubernetes cluster was described as ninja technique. I strongly disagree with this and actually want to disapprove it in this article. Running self managed K8S can also be inexpensive if you use a provider such as Hetzner Cloud.
Minikube is very popular and the most known Kubernetes version for local software development. It runs inside a virtual machine like VirtualBox and allows developers to run Kubernetes applications locally. As Docker runs natively just on Linux, you may wonder why do we need virtual machine on Linux? Well, not anymore.
Helm is a great tool to deploy popular services and applications to your Kubernetes cluster, but from the moment I started using it I had a feeling that something is missing. You could easily configure and install whatever, but each chart that you use is a separate unit and there is no code containing all resources. This practically means in case of disaster it was still not easy to recreate the cluster, at least not in a quick time frame. Another contra is that in order to pin exact image versions, you would have to edit each values file every time you want to upgrade something.
Few days ago, DigitalOcean announced PostgreSQL DBaaS , which is really nice, but even better, they promised soon availability of MySQL and Redis managed services. While we are waiting for this, I will describe in this article how to backup your Kubernetes MySQL database to Spaces , DigitalOcean’s S3 compatible storage.
