PinnedPaul DallyWho is Paul Dally (And What The Heck is a Distinguished Architect)?Who is Paul Dally?Feb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
Paul DallyViewing logs from the previous container instance when your container is crashingWhen a container is repeatedly crashing, it may not be obvious how to determine what is wrong. You might look at kubectl log , but the…Mar 19Mar 19
Paul DallyIs your Pod’s environment variable not resolving a reference to another variable?Order MattersMar 15Mar 15
Paul Dally-XX:MaxRAMPercentage isn’t working?Have you removed your -Xmx setting yet? Often (e.g. OpenJDK, IBM, Red Hat), if you specify both and -XX:MaxRAMPercentage, -Xmx will take…Nov 22, 2023Nov 22, 2023
Paul DallyWhy you should care about Kubernetes container requests and limitsThe Kubernetes documentation covers resource management for Pods and containers pretty thoroughly. Unfortunately, it seems that many…Nov 14, 2023Nov 14, 2023
Paul DallyMake sure you specify a reasonable timeoutSeconds on your Liveness and Readiness ProbesNone of the examples in the Kubernetes documentation for liveness and readiness probes specify a timeoutSeconds field.Aug 11, 20231Aug 11, 20231
Paul DallyThe Kubernetes documentation is SO wrong about NamespacesNamespaces are NOT just for clusters with “a few to tens of users”…Jul 20, 20233Jul 20, 20233
Paul DallyActive Directory — How to determine what domain controllers are serving your domainJul 6, 2023Jul 6, 2023
Paul DallySuccessfully using Ingress-NGINX and SessionAffinity with Regex pathsFirst, please consider enhancing your application so that it doesn’t require session affinity!May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
Paul DallySession Affinity and Kubernetes— Proceed With Caution!Sometimes, you may find that your Kubernetes application doesn’t work properly when you first run more than 1 replica.May 5, 20231May 5, 20231