8 posts with tag istio

LLM Inference on OVH MKS: Terraform, Ansible, and Deployment

Provision an OVH MKS GPU node pool with Terraform, deploy vLLM, Istio, and cert-manager with Ansible, and walk through a first deployment. Part 2 of 6.

· 8 minutes reading time

LLM Inference on OVH MKS: Introduction

When to self-host an LLM on Kubernetes, why vLLM, and what the stack looks like on OVH MKS. Covers use cases, cost framing, and architecture. Part 1 of 6.

· 10 minutes reading time

SigNoz on OVH MKS: Access Log Reports with Vector and ClickHouse

Collect Envoy access logs with Vector into ClickHouse, generate monthly awffull reports, and serve them via Istio ExternalName route to S3. Part 3 of 3.

· 8 minutes reading time

SigNoz on OVH MKS: Infrastructure with Terraform + Ansible

Deploy SigNoz on OVH MKS with Terraform and Ansible: MKS cluster, ClickHouse hot-to-cold S3 tiering, Istio Ambient Mode, cert-manager DNS-01. Part 1 of 3.

· 16 minutes reading time

SigNoz on OVH MKS: Metrics, Traces & Logs with Istio Ambient

Send Istio metrics, OTLP traces, and pod logs to SigNoz on OVH MKS. Verify ClickHouse S3 cold-tier and estimate 7-year storage costs. Part 2 of 3.

· 9 minutes reading time

ClickHouse Use Case: Vector, Istio, nginx, Java on OVH MKS

Vector → ClickHouse on OVH MKS: Envoy/Istio, nginx, Java, Go and Kubernetes logs with hot-to-cold S3 tiering. Monthly awffull reports via SQL export. Part 5 of 5.

· 17 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Linkerd: Service Mesh on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio 1.29 (sidecar mode) and Linkerd 2.19: data plane, mTLS, egress, resource overhead, observability, and when to use each.

· 14 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Envoy Gateway: Gateway API on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio and Envoy Gateway as Gateway API implementations: mTLS, egress, Cilium, managed cloud specifics (AKS, GKE, OVH MKS), and real client IP.

· 19 minutes reading time