Tag: container
Got a host directory? Wish it were seamlessly mounted in your VM? Want to avoid NFS? 9p!
I wrote earlier about my life-long affair with NFS. 25 years of my life have gone into rpc portmappers and nis etc. But, so many letters in NFS, is there a better way? Enter 9p. This post has a pretty good description. But, in a nutshell, 9p will use virtio transport, so no IP, no…
Cloud billing and bugs: log ingestion
So I’m using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Its not a big deployment (3 instances of 4VCPU/7.5GB RAM), but is now up to about $320/month. And I’m looking at the log ingestion feature. You pay for the bytes, api calls, ingestion, retrieval. See the model here. Feature Price1 Free allotment per…
The agony of NFS for 25+ years of my life! Then and now. ClearCase and Kubernetes
My first experiences with NFS (Network File System) started in 1989. My first term at university, a set of vax machines running BSD Unix, some vt220 terminals, and ‘rn’. My first understanding of NFS came a few years later. ClearCase. I was working at HP, the year was 1992. Most of us on the team…
Hack or Genius: cloud backup revisited
So earlier I wrote about my simple rsync approach. It worked well for a bit, and then mysteriously broke. Why you ask? And how did I fix it? Well, down the rabbit-hole we go. First I get an email from Google GCP/GKE people. Hello Google Kubernetes Customer, Several vulnerabilities were recently discovered in the Linux kernel which…
Today’s post brought to you by the letter ‘k’: quickly re-pull an image in kubernetes
What do KDE, Kubernetes, and Krusty the Klown have in common? They all paid attention in English class where they taught us about cacaphony. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree. And all their commands are ‘k*’. Ps, poor euphony, never used. So here’s a ‘k*’ for you. You are developing along.…
