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GKE: show pod distribution across nodes and zones


Categories: Hyperscaler, Kubernetes

Whether you are working on scaling, performance, or high-availability, it can be useful to see exactly which Kubernetes worker node that pods are being scheduled unto. Pods as distributed across worker nodes ns=default kubectl get pods -n $ns -o=custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,NODE:.spec.nodeName Pods as distributed across zones (GKE specific) If you wanted to take it one step further … GKE: show pod distribution across nodes and zones

GCP: Moving a VM instance to a different region using snapshots


Categories: Hyperscaler

The ‘gcloud compute instances move‘ command is convenient for moving VM instances from one region to another, but only works within a narrow scope of OS image types and disks. For example, only older non-UEFI OS images can be moved with this command. Trying to move even the simplest Ubuntu bionic/focal or Debian bullseye/buster VM … GCP: Moving a VM instance to a different region using snapshots