Long Strange Trip

  • Dramatically simplify developing your app for Kubernetes: a sample

    Dramatically simplify developing your app for Kubernetes: a sample

    Apologies if this is old-hat for you, but, I was awfully tired of ‘git commit; git push; … wait for CI; … helm…’ Lets say you are developing a simple Python flask app. You are going to edit/push many times to get this going perfectly in Kubernetes. So many docker builds and pushes and redeploys…

  • Duck Duck Toddler. A Waterloo Park Adventure

    Duck Duck Toddler. A Waterloo Park Adventure

    I didn’t take a photo of this (I was laughing too hard and it seemed a bit rude so I held off), so picture it in your mind. Waterloo Park. Its got a ‘lake’ in it (silver lake). And the lake is inhabited by ~30 mallard ducks and between 0 and 50 Canada Geese (and…

  • Dark off-roading: fat tires to the rescue

    Dark off-roading: fat tires to the rescue

    So it was dark on the ride in this am. I mean pitch black. Not a huge problem normally since I have a headlight and I keep it aimed reasonably far ahead, and other than a few early-rising ducks there is normally not a lot of ‘pedestrian’ traffic. It was also cold and raining so…

  • Kooking Kontainers With Kubernetes: A Recipe for Dual-Stack Deliciousness

    Kooking Kontainers With Kubernetes: A Recipe for Dual-Stack Deliciousness

    If you have a mild allergy to ascii or yaml you might want to avert your eyes. You’ve been warned. Now, lets imagine you have a largish server hanging around, not earning its keep. And on the other hand, you have a desire to run some CI pipelines on it, and think Kubernetes is the…

  • Microservices unplugged: Chautauqua meetup filmed and posted

    Like shaky-cam? Like hearing me speak about ‘what i’ve learned about cloud security and micro-services’? This video is for you! Its our meetup (The Waterloo Technology Chautauqua) on video and posted for your pleasure. Thanks again to Auvik for hosting.