Beware the hidden newlines in Kubernetes secrets
When creating secrets for Kubernetes, always use echo -n to create the files you intend to import as secrets using kubectl create secret
Meet technical debt →
A helpful introduction to technical debt
Workaround blocked attempt to grant extra privileges on GKE due to RBAC
While attempting to deploy an awesome set-it-and-forget-it volume snapshot solution for my GKE cryptocurrency mining pool empire, I stumbled across the following error when trying to create the necessary RBAC ClusterRoleBinding:
How I removed a file from my git repo history
While making my most recent commit to my blog, I discovered (after the fact) that I’d accidentally committed a screenshot from a customer project, into my /images/ subdirectory.
In appreciation of bare (naked) double-D(ashes)
Today I was trying to grep through a directory structure full of PHP code, looking for a function which, inexplicably, returned -6.
Bookmarks of note / August 16, 2018
- Automatically install build dependencies prior to building an RPM package → A handy tip re quickly installing all the dependencies for a .SPEC file
Bookmarks of note / July 23, 2018
- How do I figure out my Google OpenID URL? → Useful if you have an old app (hello, crofflr) which still has your account tied to your Google account via OpenID
OpenStack LBAASv2 failed connection debugging
I deployed Load-Balancer-As-A-Service (LBAAS) in my lab OpenStack deployment early on, and it worked (setup in Horizon) as advertised (load-balancing inbound HTTP connections to multiple docker swarm nodes), until I broke the stack by fiddling with MTU settings.
GPU transcoding with Emby / Plex using docker-nvidia
How to use nvidia-docker to transcode with Emby / Plex using your GPU
Should you do microcode updates?
A colleague and I were discussing my recent rant re a RedHat-issued kernel update breaking VMs on all my AMD systems. Notwithstanding the fact that my RedHat bug report about the issue is set to “private” and Bugzilla (1990 called wants its UI back, to hang out with Miranda IM) won’t let me change it, he asked me “we’ve applied the latest microcode, right?”