Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech I took the above picture this morning (New Years Eve) of the moon setting behind the Swiss Alps and on 2020 (It pays to get up early). Watching the moon set really brings closure on 2020 on the ups and downs. As we close out 2020, we could focus on all the negatives but instead lets focus on the positives and start planning 2021! Happy New Years to you! Forget New Year's Resolutions and instead conduct a year in Review I have to dig this...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech It's time to Open Source everything The CentOs debacle has kicked off some great discussions. Including Chef Co-Founder Adam Jacob. A great article on how companies should open source their work and how important it is to "own" the upstream. How to write good documentation I cannot emphasis enough how important it is to right good documentation. It helps not only you but others in the future. I ensure I detail all my GitHub repos as much as...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Rocky Linux set to replace CentOS This is why I love Open Source. Last week Red Hat, you know the ones that promote being the "Open Souce" company discontinued CentOS forcing people to go to their Enterprise Linux version. The announcement didn't go down well in the community. This week the original Co-Founder of CentOS Gregory Kurtzer steps up to reignite CentOS named Rocky. Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Is it still running A cool project pushing the boundaries on eliminating DevOps roles entirely. Jim Angel created an Auto Git-Ops deployment which performs unattended upgrades for Docker, kubelet, kubeadm, & kubectl. But that's not all. It publishes the results to the webisite https://isitstillrunning.com/ displaying the current health as well as previous and current versions of Kubernetes. This is the future folks! Apple, CloudFlare, and...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Undelete a file overwritten with mv (Linux) An interesting investigation on what happens to files when you deleter or mv them. The article basically walks you through how to recover files by replaying a binary file back to the original file. Lesson learned. Backup your computer! UK Company used XSS vulnerability as company name Very clever. It appears the UK company register recently started accepting special characters in company names. Well...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech xip.io - Wildcard DNS Service A really cool service I discovered last week is xip.io made my the team from Basecamp. What is xip? Itβs a free wild card domain for testing. For example, if your IP address locally is 10.10.10.1 you could add 10.10.10.1.xip.io will resolve to your IP address. Great little utility Shamless plug - My Traefik Course is on Sale for Black Friday OK, this newsletter as you noticed doesn't contain advertisements....
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech K0s the zero friction Kubernetes distribution Anything to make Kubernetes easier sounds promising. With the catchy tag line it sounds like running through pastures of green grass singing it's a beautiful life. But...I ask myself. What is the real difference between K0s and K3s besides the "3"? They are both super lightweight, single binary, and with everything you need baked in. I still need to test them side by side to really compare but the...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech New Macbook Air outperforms High-end Macbook Pro Exactly the performance benchmarks we have been waiting for. Removing the marketing fluff. The new Apple silicon M1 Chip seems to be an absolute rocket ship. We know the ARM processor architecture packs more punch and is more effecient but these charts are amazing and makes me consider down scaling to a Macbook Air. Deutsche Bank suggests a 5% tax for working from Home Somehow this story really...
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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi A little DIY project my son and I have built several times. My son asked to build it yet again and this time I decided to document the process. A simple overview of how to setup a Raspberry Pi and start monitoring air traffic in no time at all. This article also landed on the front page of Hacker News for two days in a row ;) Stories for VS Code A really great idea is to add the social aspect...
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