Software Engineer at day. Tech Storyteller at night. Helping people master Containers.
Hello there! 👋 Debugging containerized applications is... challenging. Debugging apps that use slim variants of container images is double challenging. And debugging slim containers in hardened production environments is often close to impossible. Before jumping to the DevOps problems that I prepared for you this week, let's review a few tricks that can be used to troubleshoot containers. If the container has a shell inside, running commands in it with However, good security practices demand that our containers don't include debugging tools (or even shells) by default. Here is what you can do if the misbehaving container is based on a slim or a distroless image:
Quite a few options, huh? Well, from my experience, none of them is super user-friendly. Installing debugging tools on demand is tedious, getting the Third-party tools to the rescue! ​ Do recommend giving
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Software Engineer at day. Tech Storyteller at night. Helping people master Containers.
Hello friends! Ivan's here - with a well overdue February roundup of all things Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, and Server-Side craft 🧙 What I was working on A lot of stuff on the dev side - not so much on the content side. But things are soon to reverse 🤞 Announcing labCTL - the long-awaited iximiuz Labs CLI A dozen people have asked me over the past year-ish if there'll be access to the playgrounds from the local terminal and not only from the browser. And while I myself wanted this feature...
Hey hey! Are you ready for your next DevOps challenge? Last week, we all witnessed yet another terrifying cyber-security event, and this time, it was a direct hit - researchers from Snyk discovered a way to break out of containers! 🤯 The vulnerability was found in the fundamental component of the containerization ecosystem - the most popular implementation of the (low-level) OCI container runtime - runc. Notice how, on the diagram above, most high-level container runtimes actually rely on the...
Hello friends! Ivan's here - with my traditional monthly roundup of all things Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, and Server-Side craft 🧙 What I was working on After my announcement of the iximiuz Labs GA earlier this month, the platform's usage has more than doubled, so I had to focus on the system's stability and UX. As a result, I increased observability and test coverage, added one more bare-metal server, streamlined a bunch of use cases, and fixed a few bugs. The most notable user-facing...