Blogs

Websockets and Workers! A match made in heaven! Or not. Stateful, persistent communication? With ephemeral, floaty web workers that have almost no state? How in the world can those interoperate!? Leave it to the talented folks at Cloudflare to build a fantastic integration. This is ...

Below is an introduction to Helm! If you want to skip to the cheatsheet, you can download it here. What is Helm According to its own docs, Helm is "the" package manager for Kubernetes. What does this mean? It's a way of keeping track of all your Kubernetes ...

`sssd` has established itself as the most common way to provision system accounts via LDAP or Active Directory on linux servers across all linux distributions. However, working with it can be tricky! TL;DR; We show an example of using `sssd` to contact an LDAP server that is listening ...

If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be? That is such a great discussion starter! The Analogy Linux Capabilities are like Superpowers The number of superpowers out there in the imaginations of content creators is simply astounding. Just check out the X-Men universe, if you don't ...

As someone who normally just uses `kubectl` and `helm` to talk to my Kubernetes clusters, the idea of scripting modifications to my Kubernetes cluster was exciting!! I cracked open the `kubernetes-python` client and started playing. TL;DR; We use the `boto3`, `eks-token`, and `kubernetes` python packages to talk to an EKS ...

We've all been there. You start debugging kerberos, and it starts getting warmer in the room. Ok, maybe not all of us. Debugging Kerberos certainly can feel an awful lot like Hades, though. The Analogy Debugging Kerberos is like Hades Hades is the Greek God of ...

How can less-technical people understand what DevOps (short for Development Operations) people do? Welcome to my childish attempt to explain. The Analogy Doing DevOps work is like building sand castles! First, I'm not a real DevOps person, but bear with me. When you build sand castles at ...

I love analogies. Perhaps that is easy to guess based on the name of the website. Why? Well, I'll tell you. What is an analogy? Perhaps you recall something like this from primary or secondary school: egg:chicken::acorn:? If that use of analogies brings back painful memories ...