I got back home from Kubecon on October 15, and dived into a bit of a maelstrom. I’m finally coming up for air. 🎉 First; I gave my Kubecon talk, and even PRed all the changes I had to do to get the demo to work back to various upstream repos. If you’re looking to…
Productionizing Home Kubernetes
Since I cleaned up the physical rack layout (picture soon!), one thing that’s been bothering me about my home Kubernetes cluster has been the ad-hoc and snowflake nature of the cluster itself. Generally, I’ve been installing/upgrading things with kubectl apply (or occasionally helm install). This is great for experimentation, but is is pretty lousy for…
Justifying Hardware Upgrades with Benchmarking
In which Evan attempts to figure out just how slow his hardware is, and discovers an unexpected factor of two in performance.