https://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/k8s/Recent content in k8s on Why did IT failHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2026 Dominik Textoris (formerly Zorgnotti). All Rights Reserved.Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2023-01-cka-requalification/Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2023-01-cka-requalification/Time seems to fly as I get older and so I was surprised by the need to requalify for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Hey, I surely did this just last year and not in 2020, didn’t I? Well, the Linux Foundation said otherwise and here is my re-take experience. I cleared the CKA exam with a score of 91%, so I feel rather confident to write about it.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2022-03-tce-demo-appliance/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2022-03-tce-demo-appliance/TL,DR: GitHub Repo for TCE Demo appliance Motivation I was quite excited when VMware released Tanzu Community Edition. It is a free and open source distribution of VMware Tanzu, featuring Cluster-API and other amazing stuff. It was just what I needed to further expand my Kubernetes-fu and it is suitable sized for any home-lab. However, while TCE itself is easy enough to deploy, I had some challenges with the prerequisites for Docker and other components on my workstation(s).https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-08-kubectl-lsdeploy/Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-08-kubectl-lsdeploy/I started looking a bit into Kubernetes and for no other reason than curiosity I wanted to visualize some dependencies to get a better understanding on how things work, e.g. where my container (pods) actually spawn when I apply one of these nice YAML files with a deployment. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a get command within kubectl that showed my all the information in a single call, except if you heavily use labels and selectors.