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My go to Kubernetes tools

By Dan NewtonPosted on April 10, 2024Posted in Kubernetes

After working with the popular and still growing container management platform, I’ve had the opportunity to use several different management tools. Here’s my current favorites. OpenLens A GUI and open source K8s management tool. Works well with a small number of clusters (10 clusters can be added/pinned to the “hotbar”). This tool has the ability […]

What I’ve learn working with EKS and Kubernetes RBAC

By Dan NewtonPosted on December 18, 2022Posted in aws, Kubernetes

RBAC or Role-based Access Control, is a key feature of Kubernetes (a.k.a. k8s) that provides access control by roles and role bindings. A role will be defined with a set of api_groups (“” for default, “apps”, “autoscaling”, “batch”, “extensions”, “networking.k8s.io”, “authentication.k8s.io”,”storage.k8s.io”,”certificates.k8s.io), resources (pods, deployments, namespaces, secrets, persistentvolumes, configmaps, nodes), and vebs (create, get, delete, list, […]

Configmap and the AWS EKS Terraform Module

By Dan NewtonPosted on November 12, 2022Posted in aws, Kubernetes, terraform

I’m currently on a cool project where we are automating the deployment of EKS clusters with Terraform. The TFE server is configured with an IAM user, that TF user will automatically be added to the aws-auth section of the configmap. We have EKS module code to add our SSO group’s rolearn to the configmap. The […]