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I start installing storage plugins, this time Rook (Ceph) -- which takes a while -- and OpenEBS Mayastor. Read this if you want to read a feel-good underdog system administration story.

How closing issues automatically is destroying our society, one cold trail at a time.

Part 1 of my second crack at benchmarking storage providers that scale from hobbyist to enterprise. In this post I go over the setup (the code isn't public just yet) of the dedicated servers I'll be using

Kubernetes upgrade sunday -- A series of posts where I do some maintenance and upgrades on my k8s cluster that sometimes happens on a sunday. This sunday I work on node local DNS caching, kube-router, jaeger, cert-manager, traefik, and containerd

Has anyone ever written anything that serves just a single file? Should this even be written? I don't know the answer but I've written it, twice.

Are there some other compelling ingress controllers for the Kubernetes ecosystem I should consider switching to in 2021?

Adding another tiny package to the NodeJS package heap for functionality that I just couldn't seem to find in other similarly sized packages.

An idea on how to manage services and stores just as flexibly as components are handled. The answer: make them web components.

Service to service communication broke down due to old Kubeconfig being fed to my old version of kube-router.

Moving back to Docker (and enabling rootless containers) after running into issues with Podman

I run a small experiment to figure out what the optimal setting is for pm2.

Use redshift/flux and safeeyes/breaktimer to keep your eyes fresh!

Explaining Vue Going from almost-zero to Vue

Improving my security posture with ease by following best practices from a blog post (https://www.simplecto.com/get-more-secure-websites-from-your-traefik-configuration) thanks to thanks to Traefik and Kubernetes. This post is also unintentionally an exploration of the amount of work it takes to switch from Traefik v1 to v2.

Upgrading to Kernel 5.9.1 caused some issues for lots of the Arch faithful, in my case it wasn't graphics but actually Bluetooth that was heavily affected.

How to do basic cookie based authentication with Nuxt, because nuxt-auth doesn't currently support HttpOnly cookies.

Bits and bobs to make working with podman a little easier

A somewhat succinct no-bullshit guide to setting up rootless containers on Arch Linux

A code snippet for running containers from your super simple tape (https://github.com/substack/tape) NodeJS E2E tests

Jetstack's cert-manager is one of the most important parts of my k8s cluster and I've waited entirely too long to update it. The path from v0.4.0 to v0.16.0 is grueling but pretty easy thanks to well-built software.