Solutions and FAQ

Monitoring: using slock/sloth for SLOs
[Supported in Kublr 1.21.2 and later] Tags: prometheus, grafana, SLO, slock/sloth Kublr use Prometheus/Grafana/Alermanager stack for centralize monitor...
Tue, 17 Aug, 2021 at 8:22 AM
Observability features in Elasticsearch
[Supported in Kublr 1.20.1 and later] Tags: elasticsearch, observability, apm, uptime, heartbeat Kublr runs a regular open source Elastic stack as a pa...
Tue, 15 Jun, 2021 at 8:47 AM
Prometheus/Alertmanager Monitoring via External Watchdog
This article describes a solution to enable external monitoring of Kublr monitoring components. External services may be used such as: https://my.pingdom...
Tue, 30 Mar, 2021 at 2:35 PM
Rotate Secrets in Kublr Kubernetes Cluster Secrets Package
Tags: security TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview Prerequisites 1. Prepare Parameters and/or Shell Functions 2. Check packages in the secret store 3. Down...
Thu, 9 Mar, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Search Guard: disallow some users to view k8s and kublr logs
Tags: SearchGuard, logging TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview Configuration procedure References Overview By default Kublr logging configures full ...
Tue, 11 Jul, 2023 at 9:53 AM
Self-hosted logging/monitoring: How to protect with keycloak
If you are going to install self-hosted logging or monitoring, access to kibana, grafana, prometheus and alertmanager will be unrestricted by default....
Fri, 22 Apr, 2022 at 12:06 PM
Temporary Cluster Shutdown
TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview AWS Azure Tags: aws, azure Overview Kublr Kubernetes clusters as well as Kublr Control Plane are designed to sur...
Fri, 9 Apr, 2021 at 5:40 PM
Using Cilium as a custom CNI in Kublr
TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview What is Cilium? Kublr and Cilium Compatibiliy Prerequisites How to deploy Kublr with Cilium Cluster Specification cus...
Thu, 5 Oct, 2023 at 8:55 AM
vSphere: Remove orphaned container volumes
After moving on vSphere CSI, now the k8s PVs are not just vmdks, but container volumes, which in turn are FCD - first class disk. And the problem(or advanta...
Thu, 6 Jul, 2023 at 2:48 PM
vSphere: Use custom root Folder and root DataStorage Dir
Tags: vSphere, security, Folders, DataStore Version: since Kublr 1.24.2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview Overriding Default Folders Overview B...
Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 at 9:18 AM