Oliver's personal blog, with topics covering whatever he's thinking about at the moment.
I really like Splunk1, especially for personal projects where usage can fit comfortably into the free tier. I also really like NixOS, and have recently embarked on getting my web stuff onto NixOS. Getting Splunk to run on NixOS is a bit fiddly, but straight-forward once you know what you need to do. If you want to run Splunk on NixOS, read on! Installing NixOS First, you’ll need to get NixOS...
This blog used to live on GitHub Pages. Which is… fine? It’s nice that it’s free, it’s nice that it builds and deploys automatically. But you get no server-side logs, so posting here feels a bit like shouting into a void. Which, admittedly, it probably is anyway, but it would be nice to at least be able to see the void I’m shouting into. I’ve had an old VPS (a DigitalOcean droplet) lying aroun...
Here’s how I make woven bracelets on a frame loom. As far as weaving goes, you’ll need to know how to do a basic hem stitch, and how to tie the two simplest knots in existence: the overhand, and the square knot. I wrote this blog post because I spent way too much time figuring out how to attach the ends to each other. Materials You’ll need a yarn for the warp, a yarn for the weave, and ...
In Part 1, we dug into Pods, Deployments, and Services. In Part 2 we looked at configuration and persistence. In Part 3 we went over what’s left in terms of building your own things. In this part, we’ll talk about RBAC, Helm, and then put it all together with a capstone exercise. Map of the territory Part 1 Cluster setup First Pod Deployments & scaling Serv...
In Part 1, we dug into Pods, Deployments, and Services. In Part 2 we looked at configuration and persistence. Here we move into “what’s left”. Map of the territory Part 1 Cluster setup First Pod Deployments & scaling Services Rolling updates & rollbacks Part 2 ConfigMaps & Secrets Multi-container pod Persistent...
You’ve probably seen / had to use Kubernetes to some extent, but maybe you don’t really get it yet? And you’d like to? Then this post is for you. In Part 1, we dug into the basic nuts and bolts of Kubernetes, learning about Pods, Deployments, and Services. Next, we’ll dig into configuration and persistence. Map of the territory Part 1 Cluster setup First Pod Deployme...