I've done some decent number of article reviews by now, and whike this isn't a comprehensive or best 10 list, it'll be some of the compelling ones from the recent months, plus some overall metrics.

One thing is that my selection process is slightly biased -- I use social media searches to surface things that may be interesting. While it has done a good job of generating lists of candidate articles, it is't perfect for sure. And while I do try to filter a bit, I'm also not perfect.

Starting with easy to use Kubernetes, this article I reviewed in mid-January is decent guide to setting up KIND (Kube in Docker). KIND is a great compact way to get K8s running on your own box. A bit earlier in Jan I dug through this article on Docker, which has a tough title but is really a gentle intro and walkthrough of getting started, and even includes Windows, MacOS and Linux links for grabbing the binaries. It talks a bit about everything, and is a good spot to get grounded. Around that time, I reviewed this article which is a bit more hardcore, and deals with setting up Kubernetes directly on a server, bare metal syle. Our last Jan entry here comes from early on in the month, and is a helper for people getting started. It runs through the so-called "dry-run" commands, which allow you to validate your CLI bits without actually changing the clusters, and can be helpful in learning and basic debugging of commands.

In early February, I reviewed a piece on deploying a Flask app on Kubernetes. I think it's a good Python based way to get some hands-on experience with containers. I reviewed a piece on Kubernetes security for pros, which looks at Kubernetes from the lens of a computer security person. It assumes no K8s knowledge so it has some solid background, and then decent security advice. Later in Feb I reviewed containerized database performance, which is often recommended not to be run in a container. They do a good job of identifying where to look for performance slowdowns, and admirably aruge that the penalties of containers are not big enough to rule out using databases this way.

Having written this, I now realize how awful the default Github presentation of these bits are; I write the reviews as a single line, but my local text editor nicely wraps, and by default Github doesen't. Not a slight against Github, I think their use case is code which will not be a giant line, but I think that means I have to not link to the default view. My reviews for January are here, and my reviews for February are here; keep in mind that I have about a review per day, so it's not just the handful of reviews mentioned above. I think I'll need to think about how I integrate the reviews in here, and how I can share them out more effectively.

I think I'm going to do some video pieces with my reviews, but I think I have to get things worked out a bit more before that will work.