Author: Matt
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Environment Woes
No, this is not a post on global warming. As it turns out, I have been provisioning my Azure DevOps build agents somewhat incorrectly, at least for certain toolsets. Sonar kicks it off It started with this error in my build pipeline: I provision my build agents using the Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions runner images repository,…
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Upgrades and Mermaids
What I thought was going to be a small upgrade to fix a display issue turned into a few nights of coding. Sounds like par for the course. MD-TO-CONF I forked RittmanMead’s md-to-conf project about 6 months ago in order to update the tool for Confluence Cloud’s new API version and to move it to…
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Building a Radar, Part 1 – A New Pattern
This is the first in a series meant to highlight my work to build a non-trivial application that can serve as a test platform and reference. When it comes to design, it is helpful to have an application with enough complexity to properly evaluate the features and functionality of proposed solutions. Backend For Frontend Lately,…
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A Tale of Two Proxies
I am working on building a set of small reference applications to demonstrate some of the patterns and practices to help modernize cloud applications. In configuring all of this in my home lab, I spent at least 3 hours fighting a problem that turned out to be a configuration issue. Backend-for-Frontend Pattern I will get…
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Tech Tip – Chiseled Images from Microsoft
I have been spending a considerable amount of time in .Net 8 lately. In addition to some POC work, I have been transitioning some of my personal projects to .Net 8. While the details of that work will be the topic of a future post (or posts), Microsoft’s chiseled containers are worth a quick note.…
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Re-configuring Grafana Secrets
I recently fixed some synchronization issues that had been silently plaguing some of the monitoring applications I had installed, including my Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Mimir stack. Now that the applications are being updated, I ran into an issue with the latest Helm chart’s handling of secrets. Sync Error? After I made the change to fix synchronization of the…
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Synced, But Not: ArgoCD Differencing Configuration
Some of the charts in my Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Mimir stack have an odd habit of not updating correctly in ArgoCD. I finally got tired of it and fixed it… I’m just not 100% sure how. Ignoring Differences At some point in the past, I had customized a few of my Application objects with ignoreDifferences settings. It was…
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Proxy Down!
A simple package updates seems to have adversely affected the network on my Banana Pi proxy server. I wish this was a post on how I solved it, but, alas, I haven’t solved it. It was a simple upgrade… That statement has been uttered prior to massive outages a time or two. I logged in…
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Mermaids!
Whether it’s software, hardware, or real world construction, an architect’s life is about drawings. I am always on the lookout for new tools to make keeping diagrams and drawings up-to-date, and, well, I found a mermaid.
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Taking Stock
My wife has a go-to birthday question: Name the best thing and the worst thing about the past year. We realized that she has a habit of asking this for the New Year as well. Many of our family and friends have birthdays that fall around the holiday season, so the question becomes somewhat repetitive.…