This is a great reference for understanding the App of Apps model for deployment with ArgoCD. How to Structure Your Argo CD Repositories Using Application Sets post by Kostis Kapelonis

Keep all INDIVIDUAL kubeconfig.yaml files under .kube/contexts .kube/contexts ├── k8scluster1.yaml └── k8scluster2.yaml Then put the following line in your .bashrc (Linux) or .bash_profile (MacO...

Overview In a previous post I created my own MongoDB deployment and installed with Kustomize. Let’s use the “official” Bitnami Helm Chart to install MongoDB. This installs MongoDB as a standalone...

Author Ashutosh Krishna created the following post that easily illustrates how to gather location information by IP address using Python. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-location-info...

Before designing your next microservices architecture, consider this brilliant post by Andrei Taranchenko Death by a Thousand Microservices

Overview While writing Tagging Asteroids with MongoDB I was able to quickly provision a cluster on the free tier of MongoDB Atlas. What I originally wanted was to quickly stand up a MongoDB instanc...

Objective Let’s use MongoDB to build an asteroid tagging engine that allows us to assign multiple elements to any asteroid then query based on those elements. Schema design Arrays allow you to...

Firefox 108.0.1 (64-bit) - “The WidevineCdm plugin has crashed” While studying for my CKAD on Udemy over the holidays I encountered this error when attempting to open ANYTHING that had DRM protect...

In order to access Kubernetes applications via my ingress projectcontour.io, I’ll use a wildcard DNS entry. Unfortunately this isn’t a simple entry in the web UI for Pi-hole (yet?). A quick searc...

Objective To have a single server with enough power to run nested vSphere 8 and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with NSX. But with vSphere 8 I wanted to make sure I had something on the HCL. Dell PowerEdge...