#random (2021-03)
Non-work banter and water cooler conversation
A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you’d prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/random/
2021-03-05
What is like to patch a bug in production
Im running a study session on CKAD exam tips next week for anyone interested: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-manly-presents-cloud-native-dojo-ckad-study-exam-tips/#/
2021-03-08
2021-03-09
We have just finished our session on CKAD study and exam tips, recording here for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGuPm9D8W_4
2021-03-10
Been lifting weights for a while and looking to upgrade from a cheap squat rack (half rack?) to something like a power rack that will allow me and my wife to use resistance bands. Any suggestions? Anything made in the US that isn’t out of stock right now?
This place has been good, but it looks like a lot of their stuff is backordered at the moment: https://www.frayfitness.com/
Day in the life of a DevOps
2021-03-11
2021-03-14
I have just finished another blog on some tips to landing your first job as a #devops engineer, I hope you enjoy it! https://bradmccoydev.medium.com/how-to-get-your-first-job-as-a-devops-engineer-a0bffbbdc6b8
evening! ive been checking out this build tool, which looks pretty cool: https://earthly.dev/
While I wouldn’t use it, I can appreciate what it does. Approaches like this tend to confuse developers because it’s another layer of abstraction.
anyone using it? was wondering if you can have different sources for images, most of the examples only have one
not using it - but it looks really interesting
2021-03-15
2021-03-17
Does anyone know of a good Configuration Server solution that has GitOps in mind? Nacos and Apollo are the most popular Configuration Servers, however Apollo doesn’t have any English docs. Nacos doesn’t have any “sync from a git repository” feature.
Other than that, it seems like there aren’t any solutions out there. There is CloudBees Rollout, but it’s proprietary and maybe more focused on feature flags, not configuration.
If this was for a purely k8s solution, I’d just use ArgoCD or Weave Flux and keep all the helm overrides in git.
Consul?
Otherwise there seem to be some pretty well established OSS feature flag projects out there
Thanks! Ended up making a homegrown gitops-y solution with Mozilla SOPS and AWS Parameter Store. Consul is a no go because it’s overkill for the client.
2021-03-24
2021-03-27
2021-03-30
Ouch. love the introspective though, https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007?s=19