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How to run setup for various beats(filebeat, metricbeat, & more) in kubernetes to load dashboards and more

Posted on by jlim0930

Whenever you install beats or update beats its best if you run the setup so that the setup will update your index templates, ILM, visualizations, etc. I found that its always best before installing or upgrading to use a seed host to just run the setup before deploying or updating across your environment and to turn off template updates and dashboard loading on the beats locally so that your elasticsearch cluster is not flooded. In a baremetal environment this is easy to do but in docker and in kubernetes it gets a bit difficult. Sure you can setup a initContainer… Continue Reading →

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Rescuing pods from CrashLoopBackOff

Posted on by jlim0930

When pods behave badly in your cluster, looping over and over, it is known as CrashLoopBackOff. If the pod contains important data or you just need to edit something on the pod to get it fixed like running some checker on a program installed on the pod or moving things around or whatever the reason is but you need to get into the pod to fix it but there is no way you can just kubectl -n namespace exec -it name bash to it then what do you do? dang you CrashLoopBackOff!! initContainer method Advantage: the pod runs before the… Continue Reading →