This post is inspired by a talk that Kelsey Hightower gave at Serverless Days NYC back in 2018, well before the pandemic. He pointed out that the Lambda / FaaS is pretty much a repeat of the inetd program from the 1970s! I thought this was a pretty awesome idea! At the time, I was…
Building New Habits
So a lot of this early content is probably going to be me throwing things against a wall and figuring out what’s easy to write, what’s important but harder to write, and how to get that writing out. I don’t know if writing is like a muscle that will grow stronger with use, but not practicing doesn’t seem like a strategy to make writing easier.
Looking for a log viewer
I’m currently using a log saving configuration similar to this one (fluent-bit DaemonSets forwarding to a 1-replica StatefulSet collecting the logs to disk), with ngnix for viewing the logs, and logrotate for preventing the logs from completely filling the 40GB persistent volume that I have set up. This mostly works great, except that viewing the…
A hardware view of this site
I’ll do a more comprehensive post later, but I wanted to make sure that media serving was working, and thought I’d share a “making of” picture of the hardware that powers this blog, even though it’s not cleaned up yet. The site is running on a local Kubernetes cluster consisting of: 2 Wyse Dx0Q thin…
Hello, Knative new world!
As you might have guessed, this WordPress site is hosted using https://knative.dev/ (in particular, the serving component). I’ll write up more about how this is done later, but for now, I’m going to post a quick outline of how I got this site working. I started with this Dockerfile: And then I ran the resulting…