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The Grafana Stack can be an incredible powerful monitoring solution, but through my experience I found out how maintenance intensive it is and how uncertain the future for some parts of it are. The priority is always the application - not the monitoring. That should be stable and boring!.

Learn how to run any GitLab CI Job without giving anything root. Even dind. No Workload changes required!.

Rory McCune posted a great article about Kubernetes default enabled anonymous-auth setting. But it can't always be disabled, nevertheless k8s evolves fast and now offers more granular control..

Ansible is a good start to automate recurring tasks, but it is slow. In combination with other IaC tools you can make your infrastructure truly reproducible and even provision faster..

User authentication is a complex task, introduces significant development expenses and decrees user satisfaction if not implemented in a intuitive way. Standards like Oauth2 and OIDC can significantly decrease development time and streamline a users workflow..

Learn what is new in containerd 2.0 and how you can benefit from better performance and increased security. Highlights are user-namespaces and faster image decompression..

Managed Kubernetes is awesome. No worries about the controlplane, etcd and node provisioning. But sometimes managed k8s is not an option. To get a little closer to the managed experience you could use the credential-provider-api and make all devs love you!.

I finaly managed to rewrite my website and to turn my back on javascript frontend frameworks like react, angular and vue. Let me tell you why and what I ended up using instead..

Kubernetes success and versatility often overshadows the lower-level details of what actually drives our containers. I took a deeper took on how the default container engine performs compared to some alternatives..

You have private Kubernetes cluster or a restricted network. There are modern solution to easily share and manage access with modern secure authentication. Let's dig some tunnels!.

The Metrics Server frequently encounters verification issues with Kubelet's self-signed certificates. I wrote a small summary and make a proposal for fixing it..

Learn how to manage less secrets and make your GitHub Actions CI/CD more secure by using identity tokens and trust relationships..

CI/CD systems are the core component of modern development processes. They ensure quality, reproducibility and save huge about of time for developers. Choosing and knowing your tools ensues how to properly chose and make sure they fulfill their requirements..

This article explains how to create custom OS images for Hetzner Cloud VMs using HashiCorp Packer..

Looking back into the most important device in WW2 which also is the foundation every modern computer is based on..

Companies have to bridge the gap when moving to the cloud. One of the major pain points is observability. This quick post shows how to send your OnPrem metrics to Azure in order to provide a central location for your 'single pane of glass' observability..

There are all these digital Notebook Apps but none fit quit in? Yeah had the same till I discovered Joplin, which was a game-changer for my digital note-taking. So much so that I even created my own plugin for it..

When none of your code works anymore due to a to a innocuous secrity fix in a dot release you need some quality time with your rubber duck to find the root cause..

Time is a valuable resource. Eliminating recuring, tidious and distracting tasks allowes you to spent your time on tasks important to you.

Time is a valuable resource. Eliminating recuring, tidious and distracting tasks allowes you to spent your time on tasks important to you.

How to get a quick LaTeX enviorment on every system to typset beautiful papers and articles..

A small WabApp to to find the video and audio files of a Reddit post, download them, sync them and generate a new downloadlink..

How to ship logs from multiple servers and use a nice interface to query access logs? Promtail is the right tool in order to use the powerful Grafana platform..

Learn the best practices on how to bundle a TypeScript project for production with Docker. Get insights about Dockers overlay filesystem for small and secure builds..

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