Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Log collection with fluent-bit and ELK

ELK = Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana We are moving to Kubernetes with our applications. So I’ve installed Rancher Desktop om my laptop to get some hands-on experience. I’ll post my findings here. When pods startup we can get the logs … Continue reading

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Enable metrics server on Rancher Desktop

We are moving to Kubernetes with our applications. So I’ve installed Rancher Desktop om my laptop to get some hands-on experience. I’ll post my findings here. Metrics server and Metrics API With the Metrics API you can get CPU and … Continue reading

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Commit to git from classic release pipeline

We have Azure Devops Server to manage our solutions. The version we currently run comes with yaml build pipelines and classic release pipelines. It is “easy” to commit and push to git from a yaml pipeline with the repository resource … Continue reading

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Rancher Desktop and K3s allowed-unsafe-sysctls

Today I’ve got this error SysctlForbidden kubelet forbidden sysctl: “net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6” not whitelisted Rancher desktop will not accept all sysctls. Some are allowed, but most options are not. To get this working you have to add the setting to the allowed-unsafe-sysctls … Continue reading

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Show container info on hosted static webpage with nginx server side includes

We are creating a CICD pipeline for apps hosting on Kubernetes. One of the things we like to do is to have the build number or any other version information visible in the UI. To achieve this with static webpages … Continue reading

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