Technical articles on DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure and more.
Two floating LoadBalancer IPs over BGP on a 3-node k3s cluster - one fronting Traefik, one fronting the Kubernetes API server through cilium-envoy with active health checks. Full ansible + Helm config, and the Cilium 1.19 externalTrafficPolicy gotcha that silently broke the apiserver path.
What happens when you responsibly disclose a critical vulnerability exposing personal data - including that of minors - and the organization responds with legal threats instead of a thank you?
Many companies ship AI chatbots as thin wrappers around commercial LLM APIs with zero cost controls. What if a tool behaved like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user - and just burned through their budget?
Learn how to implement comprehensive observability for microservices using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. Includes practical examples and dashboard configurations.
Exploring advanced Kubernetes deployment strategies including rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary releases to achieve zero-downtime deployments for production applications.
A comprehensive guide to writing maintainable, scalable Terraform code with real-world examples and patterns learned from managing multi-cloud infrastructure.
My flatmates and I are huge fans of the whole DIY maker community - so a few weeks ago we bought a Dremel DigiLab 3D45. We're really happy about the quality of the prints, but it annoyed me that statistics and metrics about the current state of the machine are just available via the GUI on a computer.
How to reclaim disk space by removing local Time Machine snapshots on macOS using a simple shell one-liner.