Cloud Alchemist

If you're an active user of GitHub API, pretty soon you'll reach your account's rate limit 5000 requests per hour for authenticated user.

I was reading through the list of changes of new fzf version and, as it sometimes happened, found myself in a different place.

GitHub Actions is still pretty new and missing a lot of functionality.

I don't think that there is a single person who likes Vim's Ex mode.

It's been a week since I entirely switched my keyboard layout to Colemak DH.

I've passed Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Exam with score 84%: This also means that now I obtain all three Kubernetes Certifications from LinuxFoundation(CKAD, CKA and CKS).

Today I discovered that command, which you are typing in shell(fish or bash) can be quickly commented via ALT SHIFT 3 key mapping.

Recently the Neovim community has been experiencing a boom in new plugins.

Vim has built in functionality to open URLs directly by executing gx in normal mode.

In this article I will show how Kubernetes ServiceAccount can used to gain privileges.

During my CKS preparations, I've faced with one not obvious thing selection apiGroups in RBAC rules.

I've found very interesting but little known neovim plugin, train.nvim.

One of the topics for the Certifies Kubernetes Security Exam(CKS) is usage of gVisor as container runtime.

As a Senior Engineer at EPAM who works with Kubernetes on a daily basis I was invited to take CKS beta exam.

If you use Azure RM Compute Module from Terraform Registry you were probably thinking of ways to configure VM during provisioning.

Today I've learned that Azure Container Registry can build Docker images for you.

Today I've faced small but nasty bug in my Terraform solution.

My team is continuing migration to GitHub Actions, and one of the pipelines we are working on is Terraform validation pipeline.

Recently I was creating Terraform IaaC solution for Azure CosmosDB.

I'm a long time Jenkins user.

I have successfully passed Red Hat PE180 and earn Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers for Kubernetes.

Recently I was very annoyed by random TLS errors, for example: I was receiving those errors during executing kubectl commands, pulling docker images, execuing curl or even while copying data via ssh.

My project is migrating to github, and one of team intentions was to use github actions instead of Jenkins.

I had some free time and decide that I should try different shell, specifically fish.

Recently I was evaluating MongoDB Kubernetes operators, as one possible way to migrate On Prem MongoDB servers.

While editing markdown files, I try to make them nicely formatted.

Sometimes you need to test your application quickly, and setting up new DNS domain, especially in Enterprise, can take ages.

I've passed the course Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1 and follow up exam: The course is free, and all you need to pass the Exam is some time and patience.

I was pretty impressed by the article fzf live repl and decide to adapt these techniques in my daily work with Kubernetes.

As I work with nginx Ingress and rewrite rules on a daily basis, I spend a good amount of time working with them.

Last week I've updated my working machine to Fedora 32.

I have a bad habit of visually selecting text in (neo)vim before yanking it.

Today I learned super useful shortcut in Firefox to quickly access Clear Recent History menu.

I've been aware that there is such thing as kubectl plugin manager krew.

This is part 7, last one of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

Finished reading "The Complete Software Developers Career Guide" by John Sonmez.

Couple weeks ago I had a discussion on HR's activity in LinkedIn and location in your profile there.

I'm using fzf for fuzzy finding in vim, and I am very happy with it.

We are using Microsoft Teams as our main collaboration tool.

I'm a long time user of Makefiles.

This is part 6 of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

This is part 5 of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

I've added blog to Google and Yandex search engines.

This is part 4 of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

During last couple of days I've been developing Jenkins CI and CD pipelines.

This is part 3 of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

Many guys who work with Kubernetes don't know that you can mount ConfigMap into existing folder inside a Pod as a single file.

Just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality".

This is part 2 of my personal notes I've written during preparation to CKAD.

I thought that I could publish my CKA/CKAD preparation notes, maybe it will be useful for someone.