Terraform and Ansible were already Terrible in 2016
IBM now has Terraform plus Ansible which is Terrible. Actually a great combination, that is why somewhere an in-house ‘Terrible’ was created many years ago.…
12 Factor: 13 years later
The 12 factor methodology is about 13 years old. How did it age in the cloud-native era? Do we need a 13th factor?…
Why Kubernetes? Focus on the API, not the servers
Discussing the value and cost of Kubernetes in the light of various tech topics of 2023…
Shifting left using feature deployments
Deploying features before merging into main. Should you? And if so, how would you?…
PodDisruptionBudget confused: Labels matter.
PodDisruptionBudget and incomplete labels is not a great combination. How to prevent this situation and how to fix it.…
Kubernetes Community Days 2023 Amsterdam
Recap of the Kubernetes Community Days 2023 Amsterdam event…
Hackathon: Could we run NU.nl on LeafCloud sustainable hosting?
Hackathon time! The theme being ‘climate’: What would it take to run NU.nl on LeafCloud, a more environmental-friendly cloud than AWS? Let’s find out.…
The mysterious case of the missing ECR image
Investigating why very occasionally we got bitten by our ECR lifecycle policy…
Edgecase 2022: Kubernetes at the edge
Short recap of Edgecase 2022 conference that took place at may 24th in Utrecht NL.…
EKS and the quest for IP addresses: Secondary CIDR ranges and private NAT gateways
How secondary CIDR ranges and private NAT gateways provide an alternative to custom networking, when needing to feed EKS routable IP addresses in an enterprise multi-VPC set up.…