Category: Open Source
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Tech Tip – Formatting External Secrets in Helm
This has tripped me up a lot, so I figure it is worth a quick note. The Problem I use Helm charts to define the state of my cluster in a Git repository, and ArgoCD to deploy those charts. This allows a lot of flexibility in my deployments and configuration. For secrets management, I use…
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Spoolman for Filament Management
“You don’t know what you go ’til it’s gone” is a great song line, but a terrible inventory management approach. As I start to stock up on filament for the 3D printer, it occurred to me that I need a way to track my inventory. The Community Comes Through I searched around for different filament…
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Updated Site Monitoring
What seemed like forever ago, I put together a small project for simple site monitoring. My md-to-conf work enhanced my Python skills, and I thought it would be a good time to update the monitoring project. Housekeeping! First things first: I transferred the repository from my personal GitHub account to the spydersoft-consulting organization. Why? Separation…
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Terraform Azure AD
Over the last week or so, I realized that while I bang the drum of infrastructure as code very loudly, I have not been practicing it at home. I took some steps to reconcile that over the weekend. The Goal I have a fairly meager home presence in Azure. Primarily, I use a free version…
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Automating Grafana Backups
After a few data loss events, I took the time to automate my Grafana backups. A bit of instability It has been almost a year since I moved to a MySQL backend for Grafana. In that year, I’ve gotten a corrupted MySQL database twice now, forcing me to restore from a backup. I’m not sure…
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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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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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More GitOps Fun!
I have been curating some scripts that help me manage version updates in my GitOps repositories… It’s about time they get shared with the world. What’s Going On? I manage the applications in my Kubernetes clusters using Argo CD and a number of Git repositories. Most of the ops- repositories act as “desired state” repositories.…
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Git Out! Migrating to GitHub
Git is Git. Wherever it’s hosted, the basics are the same. But the features and community around tools has driven me to make a change. Starting Out My first interactions with Git happened around 2010, when we decided to move away from Visual SourceSafe and Subversion and onto Git. At the time, some of the…