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ABCD = Always Be Connecting Dots.

It’s been almost a decade since I launched a new podcast.

I ran an experiment.

Open standards and specs are often more powerful than open source.

Helm v4 has been released after a year of development.

10 year ago I had my first commit against Helm.

I’ve had the same terminal setup for years.

I get asked a lot of questions that involve Semantic Versioning (a.k.a.

When I read about the use of Tiller in the article on SAP AI vulnerabilities, I was a bit surprised.

There are fewer contributors to CNCF projects than there were a few years ago.

Every month, new projects are submitted to the CNCF Sandbox in hopes of having their project join the CNCF.

I just finished a two year term on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC).

Over the years, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about why the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has done things the way it has.

Kubernetes was birthed from tooling for on-premise data centers.

Maintaining several open source projects, over the years, I’ve seen a common request.

Docker has decided to sunset free organizations on Docker Hub.

While I was looking at where CNCF contributors are in the world I also wondered, how to the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) members overlap with these locations?

It has long been suggested to me that contributions to the CNCF are mostly United States centered.

I was recently asked about an error someone got with Helm and GKE.

Several months ago, I moved from working on Rancher Desktop to work on Fleet.

Disclaimer: I work for SUSE but I don’t work in the Linux business unit.

SLSA, the supply chain security project, as a model for attesting and verifing software artifacts.

I’ve been regularly asked about comparisons between Docker Desktop and Rancher Desktop.

Go has a logging mess.

When I’m doing local development, I sometimes need a domain name that routes back to localhost.

SUSE has SLE Base Container Images (BCI) that are great to use in workflows and as a based under your applications.

At the end of 2021, a new version of Rancher Desktop came out that provides the Docker CLI and a dockerd socket as an alternative to nerdctl and containerd.

When I recently bought a Framework laptop, one of the tasks I needed to do was to choose a processor.

It was time to replace my 7 year old Macbook Pro.

Almost everywhere I look, IT is treated as a cost center.

The Docker CLI has some competition in the form of podman and nerdctl.

I review a lot of pull requests for Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes.

Always Be Connecting Dots (ABCD) I think it was Rajeev Pandey who shared this with me.

A Call To Minimize Distraction & Respect Users Attention is a recently hyped presentation that was shown internally at Google years ago and leaked at some point.

The first have of 2021 has been quite a half year at SUSE / Rancher.

When we started working on Hypper we knew there would be an SDK and a client in the codebase.

In November 2016, Operators came on the scene.

Have you ever wondered how Helm’s source code was organized?

When you’re writing libraries and applications in Go there is one glaring problem.

Did you know that you can store more than container images in many container registries?

Have you ever found a code snippet on a blog or some other website that helped you out?

When JFrog announced they were sun setting Bintray and ChartCenter I quickly had a couple of thoughts… I was relieved we didn’t move the Helm stable and incubator archive to ChartCenter (it was an option) I wondered what Homebrew was going to do.

Have you ever wanted to understand package management in Kubernetes?

I’ve watched software developers argue about the right way to do things for most of my career.

There are now many charts (packages) for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager.

Using kubectl exec to execute commands in a container is a powerful feature for Kubernetes.

On June 10th 2020, Mike Vizard writing for the Container Journal wrote: As IT organizations look to operationalize what may soon become fleets of Kubernetes clusters, the amount of time required to deploy applications on those clusters will need to be gre…

Artifact versions regularly change and new releases come out.

Helm v3 uses Kubernetes Secrets as the default method to store release information in a cluster.

Naming things and anti-patterns are two things that have fascinated me.