Ready, set, client-go This post will detail a number of (I think at least) awesome use-cases for client-go. Some of these are use-cases that are similar or may almost be identical to the examples that already exist, but wi 2020-03-30
Creating a Kubernetes cloud provider, doesn't required boiling the ocean Whilst working on a number of kubernetes control-plane deployments and the fighting with kubeadm and components like haproxy, nginx and keepalived, I decided to try and create my own load-balancer. In 2020-03-18
A Decade in review 2009-2019 This post is relatively delayed due to laziness “business reasons”, also the last post about bare-metal Kubernetes deployments took too long. A lot of people on the twitter sphere published a decade 2020-01-18
Designing and Building HA Kubernetes on Bare-Metal Undeterred by the memes and “thought leadership” I decided I’d finally complete this architectural overview of deploying Kubernetes on bare-metal. To begin with we need to fix the naming.. no-one h 2020-01-02
Bare Metal provisioning with Plunder Homepage: https://plndr.ioGitHub: https://github.com/plunder-app/plunder I’ve been wanting to announce this for a while, but between my poor quality code, poor quality documentation and getting it “gr 2019-12-15
The alchemy of turning (bare) metal into a cloud This is a bit of a retrospective based upon lessons learnt over the last few months as I’ve been working on a spare-time project to manage bare-metal provisioning. The hope of all of this was to make 2019-12-08
Cluster-API-Skeleton Project Pre-requisitesBefore you can begin to create a Cluster-API provider there are a few tools and utilities that have to be in place to allow you to make your own provider. GOLANGAt this time kubebuilder 2019-10-27
Code sharing Code Sharing toolingAs part of a shared coding demo I’m hoping to deliver in the near future I decided to document some of the tooling that seems to work pretty well for me and how I’m using it! ttydT 2019-10-27
Magnifying glass on migrating applications Modernising ApplicationsThe current trend of application modernisation is somewhat of a misnomer, especially when we consider the typical end-results from the modernisation procedure: Typical results: 2019-10-09
Walking with Govmomi This is the second post around developing Go code against the vSphere/vCenter APIs using govmomi, if you’re new to this then I would recommend you start with https://thebsdbox.co.uk/2019/07/04/First-s 2019-07-10