TL;WR If you’re moving your software development practices to Kubernetes, please don’t rush the packaging work (i.e. the charts, operators, and pipelines). It might seem that spending time here is a waste of effort, but rushing this part — or worse, working backwards from manually deployed customer environments — will cause expensive delays when you can least afford it. A Dubious Analogy In just about every business, the pressure to deliver can be immense....

Today I learned that LocalStack 🔗 was a thing. If you need to learn the AWS API on a budget, or if you have AWS in your CI/CD pipeline and you want to test your deployment code, this looks like an amazing resource. Note to self: this is the first “TIL” post, but I really should be making a habit of it. I come across amazing stuff several times a week....

I finally bought a single machine that lets me grow a little cloud at home. My intention is to use it to look into various DevOps tools, including some that don’t fit well on a typical PC. The banner image shows the 40 virtual cores I now see in htop. The image was taken a couple of seconds after simultaneously rebooting five VMs, each with 4 CPUs and 8GB RAM....

TL;WR Hosting a Windows Remote Desktop in your home over the Internet is a risky business, particularly in this era of botnets and ransomware. My father used to invite other volunteers from church into his desktop to help with the books, and I finally convinced him to transition off his PC and into various commercial platforms. Each of those platforms had their pros and cons. Years have passed, and now I think I can bring the service partway back....

In this post I discuss some of the potential usability issues when working with static site generation. ...