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Forwarding Client Connection Info in Your DigitalOcean Kubernetes Setup with PROXY Protocol

In this blog post, we’ll delve into enabling the PROXY protocol on DigitalOcean's LoadBalancer using ingress-nginx in order to forward client IP addresses. Our focus will be on forwarding client IP addresses, a crucial step for scenarios such as IP-based geolocation or access restriction based on IP. Let’s dive into the details! 🌊🪸 ⚠️I assume you already have an Ingress NGINX Controller installed and running Enable PROXY protocol on the Ingress NGINX Controller First, we need to edit the

How to Connect Ghost to a Managed MySQL Database on DigitalOcean with Helm

So, you installed Ghost on your Kubernetes cluster with the bitnami/ghost Helm chart. That's pretty cool, congrats! 🥳 However, now you have a MySQL pod for each Ghost instance in your cluster that you have to manage yourself. That's not bad at all but sometimes, it's nice with simplicity and that's where DigitalOcean's managed MySQL service comes in handy! I've made a list of pros and cons of managed vs. unmanaged MySQL servers here. Worry-Free Managed MySQL Hosting | DigitalOceanLeave the