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  • NKP – Platform Applications
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    NKP – Platform Applications

    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…

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  • NKP – Understanding Access Control
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    NKP – Understanding Access Control

    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…

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  • NKP – Define Access Control
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    NKP – Define Access Control

    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…

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  • NKP – Create a Managed Nutanix Cluster
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    NKP – Create a Managed Nutanix Cluster

    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…

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  • NKP – Configuring Infrastructure
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    NKP – Configuring Infrastructure

    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…

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  • Installation of NKP
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    Installation of NKP

    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…

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  • NKP – introduction
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    NKP – introduction

    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…

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  • NTC Tech Connect at Nutanix HQ (day 1)
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    NTC Tech Connect at Nutanix HQ (day 1)

    After a great night with some of the NTC’s, today it started. A short wrap-up of the day. Pre-NTC TS 1; LCM information Although the day is about to start at 8.30am, Cameron grabs the moment and is talking about LCM and the focus of his team. Where the focus was lately on reliability, the…

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  • Heading to SJO for NTC Tech Connect

    If everyone ever asks me if it is worth travelling to San Jose for just two days, I would say definitely yes. Of course, the first day is not really pleasant with two connecting flights, but you forget about that when you meet the NTCs again in San Jose. But for now, the day. Awake…

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  • Nutanix – Recovering from storage ‘exhaustion’
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    Nutanix – Recovering from storage ‘exhaustion’

    An earlier post showed the recovery of a critical alert about the Nutanix cluster storage. What are reasons to get into a situation that your Nutanix cluster is not able to recover from node failure. Of course, there can be several reasons for this behaviour. Lately, one of my customers had to deal with another…

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