GKE users get access to an awesome new tool this week: the Kubernetes History Inspector. This product, released as open source, parses Kubernetes and GKE logs to generate a timeline with all events in the cluster. Kubernetes is a complicated system with multiple objects, and various automated processes. A single Deployment results in at least… Continue reading Kubernetes History Inspector
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GKE Autopilot: how to know if Pending pods will be scheduled
GKE Autopilot is pretty magical. You create a cluster just by picking a region and giving it a name, schedule Kubernetes workloads and the compute resources are provisioned automatically. While Kubernetes is provisioning resources, your Pods will be in the Pending state. This is all well and good, except… there are other reasons that your… Continue reading GKE Autopilot: how to know if Pending pods will be scheduled
Provisioning spare capacity in GKE Autopilot with placeholder balloon pods
Autopilot is a new mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where compute capacity is dynamically provisioned based on your pod’s requirements. Among other innovations, it essentially functions as a fully automatic cluster autoscaler. Update: GKE now has an official guide for provisioning spare capacity. When you deploy a new pod in this environment,… Continue reading Provisioning spare capacity in GKE Autopilot with placeholder balloon pods