- Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers: TLDR; don't expect space data centers anytime soon.
- Releasing Icinga DB v1.5.1: Gesundheit.
- Your cloud. In your home.: Lovely. I think I shall call my network "Internet, but in your home".
- The Scourge of Arial …
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Eleven Links of Note - December 15th, 2025
- Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed: I never been able to land successfully on the carrier. This is probably why.
- Successfully deployed OKD 4.20.12 with the assisted installer: Text post of somebody who installed OKD with the assisted installer. Almost exactly how I did it.
- How Did …
Eleven Links of Note - December 13th, 2025
- Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools: I don't see this as a problem. I mean, if I were to say that I used Asadora to build my artifacts in my Fil-Fressh delivery pipeline to my High-Riser cluster, it shouldn't be hard for …
OpenShift/OKD Cluster Logging Forwarder Setup with Syslog
Ten Links of Note - December 11th, 2025
- When would you ever want bubblesort?: When do you don't use it?
- Canonical Extends Kubernetes Long-Term Support to 15 Years: 15 years is a very long time to support a specific software version. I wish them luck.
- Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux: If you …
Ten Links of Note - December 10th, 2025
- OpenTofu 1.11 is now available!: With HashiCorp now owned by IBM, I would be curious to see if eventually OpenTofu becomes the upstream of Terraform.
- Size of Life: an enjoyable and educational comparison of size of life forms from an amoeba to the blue whale.
- Gundam is …
Interesting Links for December 9th, 2025
In no particular order:
- ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security: Incidentally, that is what I used for my TLS certificate by way of Cert Manager. Here is a nice article on setting up Lets Encrypt with Cert Manager on OpenShift.
- Red …
Deployments with Tekton aka OpenShift Pipelines
I am really tired of LinkedIn Posts.
It is useful for basic messaging and blogging. However, for more technical articles like the ones I was posting lately, it is a pain to put together and more importantly, it makes it hard for people to read if they were to follow …
read moreAuthentication with FreeIPA (LDAP) and OpenShift (OKD)
Every major platform, whether it is an app on a phone or an mission critical service running in-house or a SAAS service running in the cloud configured to use authentication from an external source. OpenShift is no exception - in my lab, I got it setup with FreeIPA (a LDAP service …
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