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I’ve been using Lima for years to run Docker and Podman on the Mac.

I’m starting off CNCF Weekly with Flux, a useful and well-known tool in the cloud-native community.

I was thinking about the projects in the CNCF the other day.

Day 0 Day 1 Day 2 ⬅️ you are here So here’s the original prompt for Status.

Day 0 ⬅️ you are here Day 1 So, I don’t like LLMs.

I’m a software developer and DevSecOps enthusiast.

Git hooks are an incredible and incredibly simple way of fixing loose ends before you commit and/or push your code without installing additional software.

Here’s a quick post about something that I don’t do often but is typically a pain when I do: debugging OAuth tokens super quickly.

So you’re managing an AWS VPC with Terraform or something like that, but some other pesky thing decided to add Route53 records that Terraform doesn’t know about.

Usually, deleting Kubernetes namespaces is easy: kubectl delete ns delete-me Sometimes, however, deleting them takes way longer than expected… kubectl delete ns delete-me # still deleting, two months later...

Situation You’re writing a Go program that renders arbitrary Go templates that users can write.

This is so easy to do, I think I can describe it in less than 150 words!

UPDATE: 2022-01-17 16:33 CST Forget the below.

UPDATE 2021-12-28 16:54:00 CST If you’re getting weird networking or security errors from your Docker containers, your VM’s time might need to be updated.

I enjoy giving talks to Meetups and conferences all over the United States.

I am not a JavaScript developer.

There is no doubt that the worldwide COVID-19 crisis has been a wet blanket for digital transformation across the enterprise.

Kubernetes and other cloud-native strategies might be putting configuration management out to pasture, but I found myself writing a playbook recently while learning how to create infrastructure as code for Azure.

They just aren’t.

The responsibilities of a Reliability Engineer are well understood: maintain a high degree of service availability so that customers can have a consistently enjoyable and predictable experience.

I read Google’s Site Reliability Engineering Workbook on a flight to New York the other day.

Here’s a really quick test to see if your enterprise Java app is ready for Docker.

DevOps and change control mix like oil and water.

I’ve been consulting for some of the world’s largest companies for the last three years and have observed three themes that worry me: Agile is a really controversial word, despite the manifesto being quite clear on the matter, Somewhere within every compa…

First, huge shout out to the five of you that actually read stuff from my WordPress blog!

Intro I was in high school when I got introduced to this weird app called VMware Workstation.

The Problem You want to use Ansible’s docker_container module to do stuff, but want to also perform actions based on their output without specifying a logging driver or writing to a temp file.

One of the more interesting types of work we do at Contino is help our clients make sense of the differences between AWS and Microsoft Azure.

I wrote a small Vagrantfile and helper library for provisioning VMware VMs from boxes hosted on Artifactory.

I’ve observed a sharp uptick of developers and systems administrators interested in “getting into DevOps” within the last year or so.

Getting docker running on Ubuntu on Windows is pretty simple.

Seinfeld wasn’t always the heavily-syndicated network cash cow it is today.

The Problem Ansible is a great configuration management platform with a very, very extensible language for expressing yoru infrastructure as code.

TL;DR: Control + ⌘ + Shift + G Home button triple-click.

I was quite surprised to discover that thousands of people were members of the “Imposter Syndrome” Google+ group within my first month at Google.

Edit 2: I’ve made a few small changes to the way I’ve described Docker architecture.

I was discussing the power of Goroutines a few days ago with a fellow co-worker.

I love writing code and building awesome stuff, but there are times where fighting the urge to Reddit for 14 hours feels like this: When this happens, I break out my secret weapon: *The Pomodoro Technique.

Many developers and sysadmins starting out with Powershell will assume that this: $arr = 1..10 $arr2 = @() foreach ($num in $arr) { $arr2 += $num + 1 } write-output $arr2 is the same as this: $arr = 1..10 $arr2 = @() for ($i = 0; $i -lt $arr.length; $i++)

Computing is expensive.

I’ve developed a system over the years that has kept my inbox mostly empty all of the time.

This Thursday, we’ll talk about a system that has been extremely critical (and extremely taken for granted) for shaping the Internet as we know it: the domain name system, or DNS for short.

Scenario A file share that a group in your business is dependent on is running out of space.

I was trying to put a bunch of slides together today but had a lot of trouble doing it because my Mac would freeze up every minute or so for about 10-15 seconds.

In Powershell, a typical, run-of-the-mill pipeline looks something like this: Get-ChlidItem ~ | ?

Your servers are useless, and you should sell them.