Interesting, I might check them out.
I liked garden because it was "for kubernetes". It was a horse and it had its course.
I had the wrong assumption that all those CD tools were specifically tailored to run as workers in a deployment pipeline.
I'm willing to re-evaluate my deployment stack, tbh.
I'll definitely dig more into flux and ansible.
Thanks!
Oh, operators are absolutely the way for "released" things.
But on bigger projects with lots of different pods etc, it's a lot of work to make all the CRD definitions, hook all the events, and write all the code to deploy the pods etc.
Similar to helm charts, I don't see the point for personal projects. I'm not sharing it with anyone, I don't need helm/operator abstraction for it.
And something like cdk8s will generate the yaml for you to inspect. So you can easily validate that you are "doing the right thing" before slinging it into k8s.
Everyone talks about helm charts.
I tried them and hate writing them.
I found garden.io, and it makes a really nice way to consume repos (of helm charts, manifests etc) and apply them in a sensible way to a k8s cluster.
Only thing is, it seems to be very tailored to a team of developers. I kinda muddled through with it, and it made everything so much easier.
Although I massively appreciate that helm charts are used for most projects, they make sense for something you are going to share.
But if it's a solo project or consuming other people's projects, I don't think it really solves a problem.
Which is why I used garden.io. Designed for deploying kubernetes manifests, I found it had just enough tooling to make things easier.
Though, if you are used to ansible, it might make more sense to use ansible.
Pretty sure ansible will be able to do it all in a way you are familiar with.
As for writing the manifests themselves, I find it rare I need to (unless it's something I've made myself). Most software has a k8s helm chart. So I just reference that in a garden file, set any variables I need to, and all good.
If there aren't helm charts or kustomize files, then it's adapting a docker compose file into manifests. Which is manual.
Occasionally I have to write some CRDs, config maps or secrets (CMs and secrets are easily made in garden).
I also prefer to install operators, instead of the raw service. For example, I use Cloudnative Postgres to set up postgres databases.
I create a CRD that defines the database, and CNPG automatically provisions all the storage, pods, services, config maps and secrets.
The way I use kubernetes for the projects I do is:
Apply all the infrastructure stuff (gateways, metallb, storage provisioners etc) from helm files (or similar).
Then apply all my pods, services, certificates etc from hand written manifests.
Using garden, I can make sure things are deployed in the correct order: operators are installed before trying to apply a CRD, secrets/cms created before being referenced etc.
If I ever have to wipe and reinstall a cluster, it takes me 30 minutes or so from a clean TalosOS install to the project up and running, with just 3 or 4 commands.
Any on-the-fly changes I make, I ensure I back port to the project configs so when I wipe, reset, reinstall I still get what I expect.
However, I have recently found https://cdk8s.io/ and I'm meaning to investigate that for creating the manifests themselves.
Write code using a typed language, and have cdk8s create the raw yaml manifests. Seems like a dream!
I hate writing yaml. Auto complete is useless (the editor has no idea what format the yaml doc should take), auto formatting is useless (mostly because yaml is whitespace sensitive, and the editor has no idea what things are a child or a new parent). It just feels ugly and clunky.
So uplink is 500/500.
LAN speed tests at 1000/1000.
WAN is 100/400.
VPN is 8/8.
I'm guessing the VPN is part of your homelab? Or do you mean a generic commercial VPN (like pia or proton)?
How does the domain resolve on the LAN? Is it split horizon (so local ip on the lan, public IP on public DNS)?
Is the homelab on a separate subnet/vlan from the computer you ran the speed test from? Or the same subnet?
Google has a "search tools" drop down menu (on mobile it's at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It's default set to "all results". I believe changing it to "verbatim" is closer to the older (some would say "dumber", I would say "more predictable") behaviour
If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I'd have to renounce my atheism.
I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.
Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven
Why do we even have that lever?
No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn't worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange
I'm always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it's time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.
Not if you use wildcard dns records.
Yup, true.
But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.
And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.
One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it