Archive - Why This Kubernetes Thing? 🤔 (WhyK8s)

Why use Jobs and not Bare Pods?

Why does Kubernetes have Jobs anyway? Can't plain Pods do the trick?

Apr 8, 2023 •

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February 2023

How can the root user get "permision denied" errors?

If containers run as root by default, why can't they sniff network traffic by default? What are Linux capabilities and how do they impact you?

Feb 13, 2023 •

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Why Linux file permissions don't provide sufficient security?

Need to understand Kubernetes security? Start here.

Feb 3, 2023 •

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January 2023

Why CrashLoopBackOff is a good thing?

Learn to love Kubernete's most hated error.

Jan 20, 2023 •

Make your development loop 🥳 not 💩

Jan 13, 2023 •

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Why not helm? What's the difference between overlays and templating?

Jan 5, 2023 •

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December 2022

Why Post-Render Hooks?

Helm yes! Use post-render hooks to modify charts without forking them.

Dec 29, 2022 •

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Why is KubeProxy necessary? Couldn't simple DNS records do the job?

Dec 22, 2022 •

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Could Kubernetes have been built with only Pods and Deployments? What do load balancers and DNS have to do with it?

Dec 15, 2022 •

Why NetworkPolicies?

Is Kubernetes networking insecure by default? Why was it built that way?

Dec 8, 2022 •

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Pods are fundamental to Kubernetes, but are they really necessary? If Kubernetes was written from scratch so that containers were deployed directly …

Dec 1, 2022 •

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