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Kubernetes 101 & 102

Lets dive into kubernetes(will refer to it as k8s from here on out). What is k8s? according to wikipedia: Kubernetes (commonly stylized as k8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a “platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts”. It works with a range of container tools, including Docker. Many cloud services offer a Kubernetes-based platform or infrastructure as a service (PaaS or IaaS) on which Kubernetes can… Continue Reading

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NFS locking down ports for SLES

When you run NFS server it will pick random ports for mountd and nlockmgr which can change upon reboot causing nightmares when the nfs is going through a firewall. You can lock these ports down so that its not random anymore edit /etc/sysconfig/nfs and put in the following STATD_PORT=4001 LOCKD_TCPPORT=4002 LOCKD_UDPPORT=4002 MOUNTD_PORT=4003 and restart the nfs services now if you look at the port assignments via rpcinfo you will see that mountd and nlockmgr is locked into a specific port # rpcinfo -p program vers proto   port 100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper 100000    2   udp    111  portmapper 100003    2   udp  … Continue Reading

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How to clear hung nfs mounts in linux

Whenever there are network changes or hiccups on systems with NFS mounts the NFS mounts itself will get hung so when you are doing df it will never complete and your session will get hung also. A easy solution to resolve the hung mounts is to look at /etc/mtab and look for nfs entries and identify which ones are having the problem and remove those entries from /etc/mtab.  Take note of the ones thats removed and do a umount -l <mountpoint> and after you got all of the hung nfs mounts you should be able to do df again. We… Continue Reading