Auto-labeling GKE Nodes for XFS support

To use XFS with Persistent Volumes, the host node needs to have the command xfs_mkfile available so disks can be created and formatted. The problem comes when needing to do this on GKE where there are 2 OSs available, ubuntu which has xfsprogs installed by…

Disabling Transparent Huge Pages in Kubernetes

A clean way to disable THP with proper pod scheduling

I’ve recently needed to revisit some of our deployments which were created in the earlier days of GKE where some useful features were…

Installing kubectl in a Kubernetes Pod

Without creating custom images

tl;dr Use empty volume, initContainers, and subPath to copy and mount kubectl.

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