Tag Archives: rancher desktop

From ingress to gateway api

Posted on March 27, 2026 by erictummers

We use ingress for traffic into our Kubernetes clusters. The next step is to migratie to gateway api. This requires some attention since not all implementations of gateway api support the features we need. On the k8s website there is … Continue reading →

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Log collection with fluent-bit and ELK

Posted on February 10, 2024 by erictummers

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

Posted on February 2, 2024 by erictummers

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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Rancher Desktop and K3s allowed-unsafe-sysctls

Posted on December 1, 2023 by erictummers

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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