Sometimes deletion of pod takes longer time. There could be multiple reasons for that. For me, it was ‘busybox’ pod. It used to take more than a minute to delete the pod. Below is the yaml.

If you are working on kubernetes, there is a high chance that you would have needeed to interact with kubernetes cluster very frequently. Most of the time, its remote or lab servers. Instead of login remote machine and accesing cluster , you can use kubectl on your local workstation to interact with remote cluster. Ofcourse you can use official go-client or python-client to access cluster programatically. But if you intend to use kubectl, follow below enumerated steps.

Recently I got a chance to try out CISCO ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) with Docker UCP (Universal Control Plane). Docker UCP is a centralized cluster management tool to manage docker swarm cluster. Post 3.x version, Docker UCP also installs kubernetes components by default. This looks to be a nice feature addition. A nice introduction can be found here docker-ucp. It gives user the ability to manage swarm cluster as well as kubernetes infrastructure seamlessly. Docker UCP comes with…