
Longhorn Volume Health: The Gap Between 'Healthy' and Actually Working
Stop trusting the Longhorn UI blindly. Learn to monitor replication, fix stale mounts, and manage snapshot bloat in production K8s storage.
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Stop trusting the Longhorn UI blindly. Learn to monitor replication, fix stale mounts, and manage snapshot bloat in production K8s storage.
In this article, we will explore how to deploy Longhorn, a cloud-native distributed block storage system designed for Kubernetes on our K3s (ARM). Longhorn is known for its lightweight, reliable, and open-source nature, which simplifies the process of adding persistent storage to Kubernetes clusters, making it easier to run stateful applications.
Stateful workloads need storage that outlives pods. In Kubernetes, that means Persistent Volumes (PV)...

Pod Disruption Budgets can block kubectl drain on Longhorn. Here's how to avoid it.

How I configured Longhorn storage for a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal — what worked, what didn't, and what I'd do differently next time.

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Most Kubernetes tutorials show you how to get something running – but rarely explain why specific...
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