Recently KubeCon 2019 was held in San Diego. I was intending to go but things came up and I had to alter my plans. Even without attending I still was able to accrue a lot of the details from people attending and just kind of watching the Twittersphere. Twitter is, contrary to a lot of... Continue reading →

There’s likely a million introductions to Minikube, but I wanted one of my own. Thus, here you go! Minikube is basically Kubernetes light that runs on your own machine. Albeit, it does this similarly to how Docker used to do it, via a virtual machine. Thus, you can do some things with it but if... Continue reading →

In part 1 of this series I setup Terraform and put together a basic setup for ongoing use. In part 2 I setup Packer and got a template started that installs Apache Cassandra 3.11.4. In this part there’s one more key piece. Really key piece for iterating and moving quickly with development needs on a... Continue reading →

This is my second year at KubeCon. This year I had a very different mission than I did last year. Last year I wanted to learn more about services meshes, what the status of various features around Kubernetes like stateful sets, and overall get a better idea of what the overall shape of the product... Continue reading →

Got some excellent coding and systems setup coming up in the next few days. Also a meetup on the 28th with Tim Kellogg and Alena Hall presenting on some interesting topics around distributed database data working on Kubernetes and WebAssembly of the hot temperament type. A new surprise guest addition on my Twitch channel that... Continue reading →