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A colleague at work mentioned seeing this log in some security logs: I thought Oh, that s simple, it must be that the IAM policy we applied to the assumed role for the EFS driver was missing that permission . It s never that simple. When I checked the logs for the efs-csi-controller pods, specifically the csi-provisioner container, [ ]
Last night, I met with a group of friends that I d not seen for probably 10 years, and it was glorious. In 2006, I was relatively fresh-faced in the North-West Tech Community. I d moved North in 2002, spent a couple of years finding my feet, and finally ended up hearing about GeekUp. GeekUp had been [ ]
A few years ago, I wrote an Ansible role to download the latest version of a file from a Github release. Around the same point, I also wrote a bash script to do the same thing. For some reason, I never released either of them (or if I did, I can t find them), so here s [ ]
This initially was going to be a mammoth blog post going through all of the lines of code in how I ve built a Vaultwarden service in Kubernetes rather than just writing what I ve done. You can just look at the git repo and see what s there! Ask for comments on that if you need more [ ]
Format: Theatre Style room. ~30 attendees. Slides: No slides provided (nothing to present on!), but the script is here Video: Not recorded. Slot: 11 AM, 10th February 2025, 10 minutes Notes: This is a little unusual. both because I m posting it as a Talk Summary but also because it was a Eulogy. Auntie Pat died [ ]
I m in the process of building a Network Firewall for a work environment. This blog post is based on that work, but with all the identifying marks stripped off. For this particular project, we standardised on Alma Linux 9 as the OS Base, and we ve done some testing and proved that the RedHat default firewalling [ ]
I found this on Threads today CONCAT vs TEXTJOIN The ultimate showdown! 🥊TEXTJOIN is the GOAT:=TEXTJOIN( , , TRUE, A1:A10)● Adds delimiters automatically● Ignores empty cells● Works with rangesGoodbye CONCAT, you won t be missed! And I ve tested it this morning. I don t have excel any more, but it works on Google Sheets, no worries!
For reasons , at work we run AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with our own custom-built workers. These workers are based on Alma Linux 9, instead of AWS preferred Amazon Linux 2023. We manage the deployment of these workers using AWS Auto-Scaling Groups. Our unusal configuration of these nodes mean that we sometimes trip over configurations [ ]
Format: Theatre Style room. ~30 attendees. Slides: Available to view (Firefox/Chrome recommended – press “S” to see the required speaker notes) Video: Not recorded. I ll try to record it later, if I get a chance. Slot: Graphine 1, 13:30-14:00 Notes: Apologies for the delay on posting this summary. The talk was delivered to a very [ ]
A while ago, I was asked to capture a LOT of data for a support case, where they wanted lots of commands to be run, like kubectl get namespace and then for each namespace, get all the pods with kubectl get pods -n $namespace and then describe each pod with kubectl get pod -n namespace [ ]