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

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:

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

This guide will assume that there is at least the basic familiarity to install the GO (golang) compiler tools, anyone looking for a start will find pretty much everything they need here -> https://