That image was taken in the Honey Island Swamp during a Cajun Encounters Swamp Tour in Louisiana last week. According to the captain, it's the tree used as the model for the Wishing Tree in Disney's Princess and the Frog. I usually try and post twice a week, but our family vacation slowed me down a bit so I just got the one out on KubeDNS.
Upgrading Kubernetes
Published Nov 10, 2021 by Isaac Johnson
One of the more scary operations one must perform is upgrading a Kubernetes cluster. While new versions often bring better stability and new functionality, they also can deprecate APIs upon which ...
Zipkin, Grafana, Prometheus and Kiali
Published Nov 3, 2021 by Isaac Johnson
With all these tracing projects, I thought i might be good to show the free/open-source ways one can use to measure application performance. We will look at Zipkin, Grafana and Prometheus. We wil...
Crossplane
Published Oct 20, 2021 by Isaac Johnson
Crossplane.io basically takes IaaC principals of Infrastucture as Code and marries them with Kubernetes concepts of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and defining multi-platform objects as YAML.
Ditching Docker Desktop Part 2: VBox and AzureVM
Published Oct 13, 2021 by Isaac Johnson
In our last article we focused on Hyper-V (PC) and Hyperkit (Mac). These are the clearest and easiest paths for using Minikube to solve our Docker needs. However, for those without Windows 10 Pro...
Ditching Docker Desktop
Published Oct 6, 2021 by Isaac Johnson
The Docker SA has been updated recently to require businesses to pay for Docker Desktop if they have more than 250 developers which at the cheapest (Pro) is US$5/user/month (if paid annual, $7 othe...