Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 9 of many) NKP comes with a pre-configured logging stack that allows you to collect and visualize pod and admin log data at the workspace level. The logging stack is also multi-tenant capable, and multi-tenancy is enabled at the project level through role-based access control (RBAC). By default, logging…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 8 of many) This post is about protection of your NKP cluster and workloads.It might not be necessaary to emphasize the importance of protecting your cluster (configuration) and your workloads if persistent data is present for your containerized application. Using Velero for Backup and Recovery As mentioned in a…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 7 of many) Platform applications are almost essential for good and proactive management of containerized workloads. Many functions are performed by this platform applications, such as collecting logs, monitoring metrics, as well as providing visualization and performing back-up and restore. The post gives an overview of the applications that…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 6 of many) Now we are familiar with adding Identity Providers to NKP, it is good to know how things are working together. With NKP you are able to manage access centrally across clusters. You are able to define role-based authorization to control resource access on the management cluster…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 5 of many) Now we know how to deploy NKP, we have to make sure it is accessible in a safe way.. How to manage Access Control within NKP? Identity Providers As with many solutions, you want to use external identity providers to provide authentication. In my opinion, it…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 4 of many) To deploy containerized workloads, you have to add at least one Kubernetes cluster to NKP. As said before you can add a managed cluster, as well as an attached cluster. An attached cluster itself is not managed by NKP. Only the workloads are managed. To get…

Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 3 of many) The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (or NKP) allows you to configure one or more infrastructure providers. Of course you are able to configure Nutanix, but you are also able to configure AWS, GCP and AWS.Even EKS and AKS are configurable by you. In this post we will…

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, how to install (Part 2 of many) How to install Nutanix KubernetesPlatform? Resource Requirements Sizing of your cluster depends on the workload. However minimum requirements are listed. These minimum requirements will be used when deployment will take place with the default settings. Resources Control Plane Nodes Worker Nodes minimum node requirement 3…

An introduction to the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 1 of many) Information of this post is subtracted from the Nutanix University course. Post is created while studying the course. Introduction Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) is a complete platform based on Kubernetes that serves modern applications. It provides a consolidated runtime, orchestration, and management environment to…