Short recap of the Kubernetes Community Day that took place 2019.…

Slides of the presentation I gave about Kubernetes practices and learnings at NU.nl.…

Looking back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 (3 weeks after the fact).…

Analyzing a seemingly simple Kubernetes cluster problem and, more importantly, maximize learnings.…

Recap of the DevOpsCon 2018 conference in Munich.…

Configure CloudFront to set the Cloudfront-Forwarded-Proto in order to allow a Django application to know the client’s request protocol.…

It’s possible to configure HAProxy to have separate health check and service endpoints, allowing to set up different firewall rules for each.…

PyCharm and IntelliJ have some odd defaults that can mask mistakes until they hit CI.…

Until recently I relied on OS X native python for anything 2.7.x and Homebrew’s python3 for anything 3.x.x. As already implied by the lots of ‘x’-es: Far from ideal. But it worked. Until I accidentally ran a brew upgrade which put my python 3 version to a bleeding edge 3.6.0. Newer than what’s provisioned on our stack and besides that I ran into some errors when installing requirements in a new virtualenv that I suspected to be related to the python version bump.…

For some years my blog has been inactive. Now this could imply that ‘not much was happening’ on a professional level but that hasn’t been the case, on the contrary. Recently I’ve been thinking about adding new content and it became clear that my old Wordpress setup wasn’t the best fit anymore for my needs. Several people I know have been very positive about Hugo and the webserver Caddy so I decided to give that a try.…