Ah, a NEW Pi, the Pi 5, has been announced. As usual, its an upgrade on the previous version, which is the 4. It looks like it'll be sold along side the 4, as havve been the previous models. The 5 will have at least a 4GB and an 8GB …
read moreTuning up the lab
Ah, the lab. I've actually had a lot of time to plan and research, so its nice to finally be trying to action here a bit. I even dug through my pi-related boneyard to do an inventory with the hopes of using at least some of what I already had …
read moreAnother take on kubernetes security
So, I've started to review some of my "useful links" for Kubernetes, and a lot of my recent links are security focused, and after a bunch of reviewing I have opinions, so let's look at some of them.
First, some general comment -- almost all articles have every word capitalized. Maybe …
read morePi update Jul 2023
Well, after a long number of months, it finally looks like we're getting a bit of movement on the Raspberry Pi supply chain. I checked today and the stores that were green (had stock available now) stretched all the way onto the second page. Contrast that with 3 or 4 …
read moreMoving from free tier to cheaper accomodations
I'm helping a friend out as the come to the end of their AWS free tier time. They've been with AWS about a year, and their billing meter has started to run, so they wanted to check in on things. So, I did.
First thing to know is the free …
read moreDeveloping some content
I've been gathering links to various interesting Kubernetes and cloud native vids/blogs/posts over the past several years, both to stay informed and to help others. As time has gone on, I've expanded the pace, but realized that not all resources are helpful. So I've started to write some …
read moreTouching base with the community
So, I attended my local AWS summit, and overall I had an enjoyable time. This is my second summit, and I had much better understanding and expectations this time, even though the flow was very different. Last year was over two days, where this year felt rushed and only over …
read moreDiving back into serverless again
Ah Lambda, we hardly remember you. After quite a bit of time of being away from serverless stuff, I needed to do some Lambda stuff. I can say that it was not anywhere near as bad getting back into as I thought, and I actually remember a few things here …
read moreReading kubernetes books again
So, after a bit of time off, I'm playing more regularly with Kubernetes again, and realizing how much I either didn't understand or have forgotten. Thus I'm taking some time to read my Kubernetes books. My first one is Up and Running, which is a great book. I should check …
read moreRevisiting k8s and upgrading
So, UGH.
I've been piddling with Kubernetes for a while, but the main tinkering piece I'm using has gotten long in the tooth. It's 1.21, and a quick check of the support lifecycle says supported ended 10 months ago. Even 1.24 will lose active support in about a …
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