kubernetes - Steven Natera

Build your own Heroku with Kubernetes Part 2: Create a cluster with Terraform

Today you will learn how to create a GKE cluster with Terraform for our Heroku platform on Kubernetes.

Today I learned how to view total resource requests from a Kubernetes cluster

I ran into a problem where Helm deployments were hitting a timeout error. The Linkerd cluster monitoring dashboard showed resource utilization well below our limits. Linkerd Kubernetes cluster monitoring Grafana dashboard (via Prometheus) From here I wondered if Deployment resource requests were above normal. The Kubernetes scheduler relies on

heroku-on-kubernetes

Heroku sucks, kinda. How their pricing pushed me to ask questions

I love to tinker. I build apps to test product ideas weekly. But spending $7 per app to validate my ideas with Heroku is a huge turn off.