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Kubernetes

18 practical Kubernetes articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.

18 articles in this topic

Deploy fast, reliable stateful workloads on Kubernetes using the Local Path Provisioner mapped directly to high-speed SSD VPS storage.

Enforce zero-trust pod communication within your Kubernetes cluster using declarative NetworkPolicy rules to block unauthorized ingress and egress.

Configure automated ACME TLS provisioning in Kubernetes using cert-manager CRDs, ClusterIssuers, and Traefik IngressRoute definitions.

Optimize K3s on a single node by disabling surplus controllers, tuning SQLite/etcd write intervals, and configuring system resource reservations.

Autoscale your workloads with a HorizontalPodAutoscaler, and understand the honest capacity limits on a single-node cluster.

Control who can do what on your cluster with RBAC roles, role bindings, and service accounts — scoped to small team needs.

Protect a small Kubernetes cluster with etcd snapshots plus manifest exports, and restore them on a fresh k3s install.

Package manifests into reusable Helm charts, parameterize values with Go templates, and install releases with a single command.

Organize workloads with namespaces and keep them from starving the node using resource requests and limits and ResourceQuota.

See how ReplicaSets keep pod counts stable and how Deployments perform rolling updates with no downtime using readiness probes.

Give pods storage that survives restarts using PersistentVolumes and PVCs, with the k3s built-in local-path provisioner.

Inject configuration and sensitive values into your pods with ConfigMaps and Secrets, and learn the right way to mount or reference them.