Cloud Alchemist

When I released jira oil.nvim, I wanted a demo that looked clean and was easy to maintain.

As a team lead, managing and creating Jira tasks is something I have to do on a daily basis.

This is the 100th post on this blog.

At work, we use Calico network policies extensively.

Lately, I’ve been spending most of my time working with Forgejo — a great self hosted Git service I use for both personal and work projects.

I discovered a useful WebRTC testing page created by Mozilla: https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc landing/gum test.html.

Forgejo is a self hosted Git service that provides a powerful CI/CD system through Forgejo Actions.

I've been using Obsidian for managing notes across multiple devices for a while now.

Our company recently decided to transition from Zoom to Kontur Talk (ktalk) for voice and video communications.

Understanding ZFS ZED Service Failures on NixOS I'm running NixOS with ZFS, and couple timed during updates I've faced an issue with the ZFS Event Daemon ( zfs zed ) service.

Renovate is an essential tool for managing dependencies automatically.

I was using nil language server for a while, and it was working fine.

Testcontainers is great framework for replacing complicated mocks in tests with the real dependencies like databases, message queues, etc.. in containers.

I really enjoyed using nvim jenkinsfile linter when I was writing Jenkinsfiles.

Introduction If you're running NixOs on your laptop, and your laptop have fingrerprint scanner, it can be very convenient to use it for authentication.

NixOs is gaining a lot of attentions right now.

When writing markdown, it's super common that you need numbered lists.

If you're interested in Testing Infrastructure as Code, join me Feb 27 2023, 1:00pm with the By watching this webinar, you will learn: The importance of testing infrastructure code with Terraform How to use TFTest to test your devops infra modules Techniq…

I continue my adventures with TrueNas Scale.

To protect my TrueNas Scale installation from power outage, I bought a UPS.

TrueNas Scale uses k3s, which is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution.

Recently I bought a server that I will be using as NAS/HomeLab.

I've passed the course GitOps at Scale and follow up exam: This is a second course on ArgoCD.

Today I learned that since v1.1 , you can move Terraform resources into modules without recreation using moved block.

Today I learned that since 1.14, 'kubectl' has Kustomize integrated in it: I don't know how I've missed this change, but it's nice to know.

Monitoring of each Kubernetes component is very important, and Calico is not exception.

I have a very useful mapping in my Neovim: gx , which opens the URL under the cursor in the browser.

Today I learned that you can embed maps in geoJSON and topoJSON format into your markdown files.

I've passed some free courses and corresponding certifications, which I find pretty useful.

In one of our production clusters, we've faced the issue of depleting the IP addresses, due to how ENI assigns and reserves IP addresses.

While all commits to GitHub through the web interface are automatically signed, you have to do some configuration to make it work in the console.

Today I learned that Keda and DataDog don't work together.

Today marks two years of this blog.

Working with Terraform on a daily basis and using Neovim as my main and only editor, I recently figured out a few improvements, which I'll share in this blog post.

Today I learned a pretty cool LSP feature automatic highlighting of references for the current text position: To make it work, a few requirements have to be met: Your LSP must support such capabilities Your colorscheme must support highlight groups defined

I've became a technical reviewer for the book Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide Second Edition Today I've received my printed copy of the book: I thought that I should share my thoughts if it's worth it.

When I saw that Digital Ocean @digitalocean is organizing a Kubernetes Challenge I decided that I'll participate.

When you use Neovim LSP functions like vim.lsp.buf.definition() or vim.lsp.buf.implementation() , your cursor jumps to the corresponding position.

To understand what's going on on the market, it's useful to apply to open positions from time to time.

In the beginning of 2021, Nat Friedman announced that Video files that you drop onto markdown files are now automatically embedded!

I've passed the course GitOps Fundamentals and follow up exam: The course is free, and all you need to pass the Exam is some time and patience.

While everyone is hyped about GitHub's Copilot, I've discovered TabNine, an AI completion that I enjoy a lot.

In my daily work, I try to use sane commits messages.

I've wanted to start using snippets for a while, but never actually invest time into figuring out how snippets work.

If you want to feel the taste of the GitOps approach one of the best tools on the market at the moment is ArgoCD.

During my investigation of Pods taking a long time to start (20+ minutes) I saw following message in Pod's logs: I figured out that PVs are unavailable for reattaching as, due to enforced fsGroup , every time before mounting PV, SetVolumeOwnership() is run

Testing your changes to the Helm chart is a must if you want to minimize the risk of failure.

When you upgrade deployed Helm chart, you probably have replicas defined in values or pass it through set .

As an active user and developer of Github Actions, I spend a lot of time watching how the run goes on and reviewing logs of unsuccessful runs.

If you're managing a lot of GitHub repositories you're probably using GitHub Actions.