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Oh My Zsh – Fix my Command Prompt

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:July 2, 2020
Post Category:administration / commands
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I do a lot of CLI demos when showing off PSO and K8s and Helm and all the cool things they can do. I made the switch to ZSH and…

Kubectl – check all the contexts

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:June 29, 2020
Post Category:Kubernetes
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Every so ofter I get in a situation where I need to see if my configuration is still valid for every cluster in my Kubernetes config. I blogged a while…

Use Kasten K10 to migrate K8s Volumes to Pure Storage

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:June 19, 2020
Post Category:Kubernetes / Pure Service Orchestrator / PureStorage
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TL;DR - Move Kubernetes volumes from legacy storage to Pure Storage. So you have an amazing new Pure Storage array in the datacenter or in public cloud. The Container Storage…

Hey, Don’t break EBS

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:June 16, 2020
Post Category:Containers / Kubernetes / Pure Service Orchestrator
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TL;DR - EBS Volumes fail to mount when multipathd is installed on EKS worker nodes. EKS and PSO Go Great together! AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service is a great way to…

Load Balance your Fleet of FlashArrays

Post Author:Simon Dodsley
Post published:June 11, 2020
Post Category:capacity / PureStorage
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In this post, I'm going to discuss how to load balance your storage provisioning across a fleet of Pure Storage FlashArrays. As an integral part of Pure's Kubernetes integration, Pure…

Flex is dead… long live CSI

Post Author:Simon Dodsley
Post published:June 10, 2020
Post Category:Kubernetes / Pure Service Orchestrator / PureStorage
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How to Upgrade your PSO FlexDriver deployment to the latest CSI-based driver Over the past few months, the Kubernetes FlexDriver codebase has been deprecated and there is a solid shift…

What’s new in PSO 5.1 and 5.2

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:June 3, 2020
Post Category:Pure Service Orchestrator
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This is mainly just a post to refer to the updates I shared on the main Pure Storage blog. https://blog.purestorage.com/data-kubernetes-pure-storage-orchestrator/ Check out the blog! BTW... saw this photo from Dockercon…

Kubernetes Topology for StatefulSet Storage Redundancy with PSO

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 18, 2020
Post Category:Kubernetes / Pure Service Orchestrator / PureStorage
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https://youtu.be/KUdTW-SpWcM Label your hosts.Install PSO with LabelsSet your StorageClass to use WaitForFirstConsumerSet the StatefulSet to schedule pods for a "nodeSelector". For the full "walkthrough" please see the demo content on…

Upgrading K8s to 1.17.4 and PSO to 5.1.0

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 16, 2020
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This morning I needed to upgrade one of my dev clusters to 1.17.4. I decided to capture the experience. Don't worry I speed up the ansible output flying by I…

Kasten and Pure: Kubernetes Backup and Mobility

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 13, 2020
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I have been recording some demos and working on this integration for the last month. So be sure to get over to https://blog.purestorage.com/kasten-kubernetes-backup-mobility/ and check out the joint blog post…