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Early adventures with Wireguard server on a VPS

Posted on 2023-11-24 | 6 minutes |

The days of complicated, long config files, complex rules for the most part are over. Wireguard being builtin to the kernel makes things much simpler from an app/tool perspective because it’s really just a single configuration file. [Read More]

Early adventures with Ray on Kubernetes (kuberay) and LLM

Posted on 2023-11-11 | 4 minutes |

Ray is a distributed framework for scaling applications. However, my journey started with Kuberay which is an operator and various CRDs such as RayCluster and RayService to provide a more declarative k8s native experience for Ray. [Read More]

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GCP GKE IAM - k8s namespace RBAC

Posted on 2018-11-05 | 2 minutes |

How many acronyms or abbreviations can I fit into one title. As an organization leverages kubernetes more and more, a shared environment may become more prevalent, rather than many clusters. [Read More]

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Traefik - Ingress Controller

Posted on 2018-11-01 | 2 minutes |

Kubernetes has an ingress controller to help you manage your layer 7 HTTP traffic. It has concepts around hostnames, TLS and maps back to your services within k8s. On Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) when an ingress is specified, it will spin up an external HTTP Google Cloud Load Balancer. [Read More]

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Kubernetes: Local Storage and Volume Mounts

Posted on 2018-09-11 | 2 minutes |

I’ve been in the process of migrating from a docker based infrastructure to a kubernetes based infrastructure. The infrastructure was setup with kubeadm on ubuntu and fedora. Though that will be for another blog post. [Read More]

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Source Control Management and CI Tools

Posted on 2018-06-27 | 3 minutes |

When there are source files, Continuous Integration tools of some form need to be considered. In the name of automation, everytime commits are pushed, something should be verifying the content right? [Read More]

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Terraform Quickstart

Posted on 2018-06-25 | 4 minutes |

As I am just starting to use Terraform for GKE, I noticed the google provider plugin support for Terraform is constantly improving for the GKE component. There are many ways to get started, but there are also some guides to getting started with the examples. [Read More]

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Peristent Volume management

Posted on 2018-06-22 | 3 minutes |

Introduction Application data will at some point be stored somewhere. This storage can be in a database external of the cluster, storage buckets, or external systems. If it is within the cluster, what happens to the data if I want to migrate to a new cluster or want to consider backups / HA / DR scenarios. [Read More]

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Traffic into your kubernetes cluster - Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Posted on 2018-06-19 | 3 minutes |

There are many ways to handle ingress or traffic into your cluster. GKE provides a cloud resources to help manage your traffic into your cluster. Below are a few specified, but there are other methods as well. [Read More]

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Conversion to Hugo

Posted on 2018-06-19 | 2 minutes |

So it begins my conversion from jekyll on github.io to hugo on github.io. It took a while to figure out hugo import jekyll <jekyll_root> <hugo_root>. For starts it wanted my hugo_root to be a brand new folder, not something I generated with hugo new site <site_name>. [Read More]

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