Today I have set up HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) on a basic level. What is HorizontalPodAutoscaler you ask! Well, HorizontalPodAutoscaler allows your application to well, scale...horizontally. HPA adjusts the number of pods running your app to match how much work needs to be done. In the words of ChatGPT here is the ELI5 version:
I have spent some time setting up my own instance of CloudnativePG inside my Kubernetes cluster. I have two instances a dev instance, and a "prod" instance. Normally I would use pg_dump to backup the databases, but I wanted to try something different.
If you deployed your Kubernetes cluster in Cloud, the cloud provider will take care of creating Load balancer instances. But if you are using bare metal for the Kubernetes cluster, you have very limited choices.
I have always wanted to learn how to install and manage a Kubernetes cluster so this is how I have gone about it. After going through many tutorials, YT videos and even the Kubernetes official docs. I struggled to get a cluster up and running. The official docs just IMO seem all over the place.