GKE move system services (kube-dns, calico) to dedicated nodepool

Mon 11 October 2021

GKE by default deploys kube-dns and other system services to any of your nodepools. This is probably fine for most cases, but certain use cases might require preventing system services from running on the same nodes as your where your applications are running. This blog post provides instructions on how …

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Custom DNS entry with KubeDNS stubdomain

Thu 11 March 2021

An example use case that I've seen is where you have a K8s service exposed on the ClusterIP and you want to make that service accessible over a domain name that you don't control.

You can do to the following steps to set this up:

1. Deploy CoreDNS with custom DNS …

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