Since starting at Packet Equinix Metal i’ve had to spend a bit of time getting my head around a technology called BGP. This is widely used at Equinix Metal, the main use case is to allow an Elastic IP

This is a post about: Operating Systems The Linux Boot process Installation methods Doing weird hacky things 😃 In this post I’m going to cover the options that are typically available to an end use

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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