(p)retired

Phew!

It’s a good name, I read it as “dapper” but I frequently type “darp” :-( Was interested to read that Dapr is now v1.0 and decided to check it out.

I’ve spent time this week returning to the interesting Deislabs project Krustlet.

I developed an admission webhook for Akri, twice (Golang, Rust).

I spent some time last week writing my first admission webhook for Kubernetes.

I’m debugging an issue with Akri Zeroconf protocol in which Instance environment variables are no longer (!)

Let’s see if this works!?

A Microsoft engineer introduced me to pest as a way to introduce service filtering in a ZeroConf plugin that I’m prototyping for Akri.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been playing around with Akri, a Microsoft (DeisLabs) project for building a connected edge with Kubernetes.

You know when you start something and then regret it!?

I was very interested to read about Microsoft’s DeisLab’s latest (rust-based) Kubernetes project: akri.

DigitalOcean launched an App Platform with many Supported Languages and Frameworks.

I’m using Hugo as a static site generator for this blog.

Google Cloud Build is described by Google as a “CI/CD platform” but it’s fundamentally a service that permits a series of containers to be chained together in a pipeline, optionally leveraging shared data.

Update: 2020-09-24 Three updates since I wrote the post: gcloud alpha cloud-shell get-mount-command ${DIR} It’s possible to use sshfs to mount the Cloud Shell home directory locally: DIR=/path/to/dir gcloud alpha cloud-shell get-mount-command ${DIR} Which

Google’s tutorial didn’t work for me.

Chatting with one of Google’s Trillian team, I was encouraged to explore Trillian’s Map Mode.

I’ve spent time recently playing around with WebAssembly (WASM) and waPC.

I’ve been playing around with a proof-of-concept combining WASM and Trillian.

As my reader will know (Hey Mom!)

A digression thanks to Sal Rashid who’s exploring WASM filters w/ Envoy.

Following on from waPC & Protobufs, I can now remotely invoke (arbitrary) WASM functions: Client: The logging isn’t perfectly clear but, the client gets (a previously added) WASM binary from the server (using the SHA-256 of the WASM binary as a unique ide…

Google has a new Golang Protobuf API, APIv2 (google.golang.org/protobuf) superseding APIv1 (github.com/golang/protobuf).

Following on from waPC & Protobufs and a question on Stack Overflow about Cloud Functions, I was compelled to try running WASM on Cloud Functions no JavaScript.

I’m hacking around with a solution that combines WASM and Google Trillian.

I’ve been spending some time this week with Krustlet.

I’ve been hacking on a Rust-based transparent application for Google Trillian.

Well, this became more of an adventure that I’d originally wanted but, after learning some BLE and, with the help of others (Thanks Jonatha, JsBergbau), I’ve sample code that connects to 4 Xiaomi 2nd gen.

I’m noodling the utility of a Transparency solution for Rust Crates.

I’ve written previously (Google Trillian for Noobs) about Google’s interesting project Trillian and about some of the “personalities” (e.g.

<3 Google but there’s quite often an assumption that we’re all sitting around the engineering table and, of course, we’re not.

Update: 2020-03-24: Since writing this post, I’ve contributed Golang and Rust samples to Google’s project.

I wrote recently describing Python and Golang clients for OriginStamp based on OriginStamp’s API’s swagger spec.

Google has released a new Golang SDK for protobuf.

ESPHome is a very interesting project.

Recently, I wrote about some initial adventures with OriginStamp Using OriginStamp’s UI or API, submitting a hash results in transactions being submitted to Bitcoin, Ethereum and a German newspaper.

I wrote recently about some exploration of Timestamping with OriginStamp.

A friend mentioned OriginStamp to me.

Until today, I’d not accessed a Google Container Registry repo from a non-GKE Kubernetes deployment.

I think it would be valuable if Google were to provide volumes in Cloud Build of package registries (e.g.

The prolific Alex Ellis has a new project, Inlets.

The FBI Portland published an interesting advisory with several, sensible recommendations including firewalling IoT devices from other devices on a home network.

I’ve spent a few days exploring [Google Fit SDK] as I try to wean myself from my obsession with metrics (of all forms).

I’m obsessing over Prometheus exporters.

I think (!?)

Earlier this week I discussed a Linode Prometheus Exporter.

Yesterday I discussed a Linode Prometheus Exporter and tantalized use of Prometheus AlertManager.

I enjoy using Prometheus and have toyed around with it for some time particularly in combination with Kubernetes.

I’ve written a couple of deployment options (Google Compute Engine; Kubernetes) for an open-source project.

I’ve finally being able to hack my way through to a working Rust gRPC client (for PyPi Transparency).