Articles
Converting an Old MacBook Into an Always-On Personal Kubernetes Cluster
March 10, 2020
Categories: Tags:TL;DR: I set up Minikube on an old (2012) MacBook Air and configured it to be able to connect from outside my home network so I would have an always-on Kubernetes cluster at home to experiment with.
Photo Attribution: flickr
Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (2020)
March 5, 2020
Categories: Tags:
Kubernetes,
Amazon Web Services,
Google Cloud Platform,
Azure,
Elastic Kubernetes Service,
Google Kubernetes Engine,
Azure Kubernetes Service,
Digital Ocean
TL;DR: Azure and Digital Ocean don’t charge for the compute resources used for the control plane, making AKS and DO the cheapest for running many, smaller clusters. For running fewer, larger clusters GKE is the most affordable option. Also, running on spot/preemptible/low-priority nodes or long-term committed nodes makes a massive impact across all of the platforms.
CI/CD for this site (Hugo + Cloud Build)
February 21, 2020
Categories: Tags:
Hugo,
Cloud Build,
Google Cloud Platform,
Containers,
Docker,
Continuous Integration,
Continuous Delivery
TL;DR: Configuring Cloud Build to automatically handle Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for this site based on Git triggers ended up being a bit trickier than I would have expected.
The Making of This Site (Hugo, Caddy, + GCP)
February 20, 2020
Categories: Tags:Alternate title: Just use Netlify.
TL;DR: Deploy a Hugo site to GCP for free in less time than it will take you to read this article (Github Repo with all referenced commands)
EDIT: In October 2020 I updated the hosting of this site to use GCS + Cloudflare](https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/10/gcs-cloudflare-hosting/).