Marcus Noble

Changelog 2026-03-20: Added note about Maintainer Summit sold out Added Kubernetes Contribution 101 Added link to Vlad Mocanu post With KubeCon just 1 week away I thought it would be good to share some of my tips and suggestions on how to make the most of…

For months now (maybe years, who knows 🤷) I've had the following error sprinkled throughout my Kubelet logs across multiple of my worker nodes: StopPodSandbox from runtime service failed: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to destroy network for sand…

Changelog 2025-05-10: Added advice from Josh Clark 2025-05-03: Added some advice from Lobste.rs comments 2025-05-03: Added advice from Aaron Patterson about repeating questions back 2025-05-01: Added advice from Márk Sági-Kazár 2025-05-01: Added suggestion

I run several bots that post to social media and the number seems to keep growing.

I have a habit of automating as much of my life as I can.

Changelog 2025-01-17: Added details about Cloudflare Last week I announced the launch of a new project I've been working on - ✨ Cloud Native Now ✨ - a new monthly newsletter that will provide a roundup of all the happenings in the cloud native world.

As part of a side project I'm currently working on I needed to spin up a new Kubernetes cluster that I could manage via GitOps.

Changelog 2026-05-24: Added blog posts from Adriana Villela 2026-05-23: Added iximiuz Labs, Cloud Native Days and CloudNative.Now 2024-06-24: Added links to video channels DevOpsToolkit, You Choose and Enlightning.

Last weekend I finally went to my first ever EMF Camp after wanting to go for 4+ years now.

I'm quite a fan of Renovate for automating my dependancy updates.

I’ve recently been seeing some stability issues with Redis that I have running for the k8s.social Mastodon instances.

Changelog 2022-07-15: Added tweet from Ian Coldwater with nsenter example This post is based on a webinar i've previously given where I go through some of my favourite tips for working with Kubernetes clusters all day long.

If you've managed multi-user / multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters then there's a good chance you've come across RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).

I was recently asked by a collegue at work if there are any resource I recommend with getting familiar with Go.

Changelog 2021-09-01: Added note about socket bugfix PR 2021-09-01: Added troubleshooting section about port forwarding bug 2021-09-04: Added note about switching to Podman on Windows 2021-09-04: Added update about port forwarding PR 2021-09-04: Added note

Changelog 2021-09-02: Added resources I’ve recently accepted a new job offer and wanted to share a little about my experience job hunting during a global pandemic.

Changelog 2021-08-08: Added latency details I've been using Scaleway's Kapsule managed Kubernetes offering for my personal projects for a while now (this blog is running on it) so I was pretty excited when they announced a new managed Kubernetes offering…

I'm not sure how I've never come across this before but while looking through the Scaleway Kosmos multi-cloud init script I dicovered the getopts utility. getopts makes it easier to parse arguments passed to a shell script by defining which letters your s…

While browsing through some of Frenck's Home Assistant Config for ideas I came across this interesting line of YAML: --- # This handles the loading of my automations # # https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/ # automation: !

It turns out that label values in Kubernetes have a limit of 63 characters!