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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.…
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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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Adding a Little Style
I jumped the gun on a code syntax highlighter plugin for Wordpress. I now know exactly how many posts I have with code blocks in them.
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Distributing C# Code Standards with a Nuget Package
The commercial spirit of the season has me creating all kinds of new packages.