I have been a very vocal fan of custom operators as a hugely important tool for success with Kubernetes. They are a fuller realization of the same design goals as the Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt config management world but freed from the workflow requirements of those tools as the only fundamental need is to be some kind of daemon that talks to the Kubernetes API. This allows the flexibility and…
As I come up for air after a few years of running an infrastructure team at Ridecell, I wanted to record some thoughts and lessons I’ve learned. Kubernetes Is Not Just Hype Traefik + Cert-Manager + Ext-DNS Is Great Prometheus Rocks, Thanos Is Not Overkill GitOps Is The Way You Should Write More Operators Secrets Management Is Still Hard Native CI And Log Analysis Are Still Open Questions…
StackOverflow is a question-and-answer website for engineers. Users post questions, other users (hopefully) answer those questions, everyone benefits from shared knowledge. While the StackExchange site incubator has resulted in an explosion of related sites, there are two main companions to StackOverflow itself: ServerFault and SuperUser. When the sites were founded, there was supposed to be a…
As someone that often speaks up on the behalf of the community, I wanted to draft a quick response to Chef’s new licensing announcement . To lead off, I want to voice my overall support for Chef Software in general and in this change. I think experiments like this are critical to ensuring the sustainability of “open source”-ish (see my previous post for details on the ish) software. And in case…
The Open Source Initiative was founded two decades ago to defend and evangelize Open Source software. At the time, open source was a young upstart, pushing back against a nearly insurmountable tide of software vendors who were looking to maintain their (very profitable) status quo. Fast forward 21 years and open source has, by any metric, won. Sure there is plenty of non-open software out there,…