Mark Bakker, Author at SUSE Communities

November 11, 2025 12:00 am

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Stop searching and start sharing, troubleshoot with enterprise dashboarding now in SUSE Observability

The single most significant drain on operational efficiency during a cloud native incident is the context switch. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers waste critical minutes cycling between generic overviews and separate debugging tools, resulting in unnecessarily high Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) and slower incident resolution times. SUSE Observability’s core strength lies […]

By: Mark Bakker

May 28, 2025 12:03 am

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Restarting Kubernetes Pods: A Detailed Guide

This blog will help you learn all about restarting Kubernetes pods and give you some tips on troubleshooting issues you may encounter. Kubernetes pods are one of the most commonly used Kubernetes resources. Since all of your applications running on your cluster live in a pod, the sooner you learn all about pods, the better. […]

Categories: Corporate, SUSE Blog, SUSE Observability

By: Mark Bakker

April 28, 2025 10:04 pm

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Kubernetes Liveness Probes: A Practical Guide

Have you ever wondered how you can help Kubernetes manage your pods in the most efficient way? Kubernetes can do a decent job “out of the box,” but it can be optimized just like any other system. One such optimization in the Kubernetes world is introducing liveness probes. In this post, you’ll […]

Categories: Cloud-native Transformation, Containers, Corporate, DevOps, Kubernetes, SUSE Blog, SUSE Cloud Observability, SUSE Observability

By: Mark Bakker

April 4, 2025 3:09 am

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How to create and manage Secrets in Kubernetes

Kubernetes Secrets are a built-in resource type that's used to store sensitive data. This blog teaches you how to work with Secrets in Kubernetes. Kubernetes can do many things, but we usually refer to it as a “container orchestrator.” Orchestrating containers means starting and restarting them when needed, ensuring their configuration matches the […]

By: Mark Bakker

March 28, 2025 7:44 pm

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What is a CrashLoopBackOff? And how to fix it

In this post, we'll dive into what CrashLoopBackOff‌ is and explore the quickest way to fix it. Fasten your seat belts and get ready to ride. Everyone working with Kubernetes will sooner or later see the infamous CrashLoopBackOff in their clusters. No matter how basic or advanced your deployments are and whether you have a […]

By: Mark Bakker

October 7, 2024 5:06 pm

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eBPF: Revolutionizing Observability for DevOps and SRE Teams

Whether you're a system administrator, a developer or any other DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional, you know that staying ahead in cloud native computing is crucial. One way to keep your competitive edge in the technology game is to embrace the benefits of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). On top of advances […]

Categories: Cloud-native Transformation, Rancher Kubernetes, SUSE Blog, SUSE Cloud Observability, SUSE Observability, Website

Author: Mark Bakker

Stop searching and start sharing, troubleshoot with enterprise dashboarding now in SUSE Observability

Restarting Kubernetes Pods: A Detailed Guide

Kubernetes Liveness Probes: A Practical Guide

How to create and manage Secrets in Kubernetes

What is a CrashLoopBackOff? And how to fix it

eBPF: Revolutionizing Observability for DevOps and SRE Teams

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