Eleven Links of Note - January 18th, 2026

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud: Frankly, he is not too far off. A significant of the global population don't have PCs, but they do have phones, so they do most of their day to day through that. That basically means they are already using cloud computing of some sort. I wouldn't be surprised if PCs gets relegated to specialize on premise solutions in a few more years.

Python 3.9 reaches end of life: What it means for RHEL users: Basically, Red Hat will still maintain the version of python on RHEL 8 and 9. Which will work as long as the dependencies doesn't get updated to require newer versions. I ran into that issues with apt-s3 module on Ubuntu 20.04 sometime back, so I am not enthused with repeating that on Red Hat.

Velero Revisited – Manually backing up VKS clusters using Velero: As you get into alternative virtualization platforms, you may need to get more familiar with velero.

Top 10 Alternatives & Competitors to VMware in 2026: With Broadcom nee VMWare squeezing as much money as they can from their customers, it is time to look for alternatives.

Converting to BtrFS: Red Hat tried to make BtrFS a thing in the past, but couldn't, so it was dropped in RHEL 8. With BtrFS being the default now for Fedora Linux, it may come back in RHEL 11.

Improving VirtOps: Manage, migrate or modernize with Red Hat and Cisco: Incidentally, Cisco server hardware is awesome.

How to automate multi-cluster deployments using Argo CD: Not in a place where I can take advantage of it, but it still looks good.

6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available: I wish my routers and switches could take advantage of this. Maybe somebody will write ansible modules for Ubiquiti.

Anteon: Kubernetes monitoring based on ebpf. Looks interesting. I would like to see the same thing with the OpenShift platform.

New Linux Malware Targets Cloud-Based Linux Installations: Keep those instances secure as well as your apps.

Elasticsearch Was Never a Database: Everything is a database if you try hard enough (though not sure about text files).

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Published: Wed 10 June 2020
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tags: terraform automation saas cloud

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