Published inFAUN Publication·PinnedStop looking for silver bulletsand start fixing your broken windows — (This article is 4 of 4 in a series about cultural issues in reliability and software engineering. Be sure to also check out parts 1, 2, and 3) When you implement policies or practices without understanding how and why they elicit the desired outcomes in the implementing culture, you are…Software Development18 min readSoftware Development18 min read
PinnedEmpathy is a critical component in Software Engineeringempathy — noun meaning “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” (This article is 1 of 4 in a series about cultural issues in reliability and software engineering. Be sure to also check out parts 2, 3, and 4) I was recently told that empathy had no…Sre9 min readSre9 min read
PinnedHow to fix your planning processor How to get into a cycle of continuous learning and better business outcomes (This article is 2 of 4 in a series about cultural issues in reliability and software engineering. Be sure to also check out parts 1, 3, and 4) Do your teams suffer from frequent priority shifts…Sre13 min readSre13 min read
PinnedDishonesty Will Destroy Your Reliability Efforts(This article is 3 of 4 in a series about cultural issues in reliability and software engineering. Be sure to also check out parts 1, 2, and 4) Honesty and trust are critical prerequisites to reliability. When trust is broken, the most natural outcomes are information hiding, and fear of…Sre13 min readSre13 min read
Nov 8, 2021Getting KubeVirt and K0s to play nicely on Ubuntu 20.04 LTSOne of the challenges of traditional metal providing companies seems to be the ability to make efficient use of hardware while still being able to dynamically schedule and orchestrate VMs and containers across a sea of compute resources. So I decided to learn more about it by getting it working…Kubernetes8 min readKubernetes8 min read
Mar 19, 2021How to make priority calls(on customer impact) “9’s don’t matter if users aren’t happy” — Charity Majors I wrote this up quickly for a friend who was asking about it. It’s not rocket science, and I’m sure this restates what many have said before, but this chart should make it simple to understand your list of priorities…Reliability3 min readReliability3 min read
Jan 3, 2021Single Node Kubernetes Control Plane Migration from docker to containerdTo compliment my previous article about migrating kubelets to containerd, this will be about migrating a single node control plane cluster from docker to containerd. My homelab is built fromkubeadm init running on Ubuntu 20.04. Backups are stored on the kubernetes control node itself, but syncing these to a NAS…Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
Jan 2, 2021Migrating k8s from docker to containerdAdventures in bare metal homelab kubernetes administration. Kubernetes has deprecated support for dockershim after version 1.20 which is currently running on my homelab. So I thought, how hard can it be to make the switch to containerd? It turns out, not that bad for kubelets. I’m still working out how…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Apr 28, 2018Shared NFS and SubPaths in KubernetesIn a previous update, I talked about setting up a service specific NFS mount path using a synology diskstation, and left getting shared storage for another day. Well, another day came, and I now have a common pool of storage for all my kubernetes applications. This followup is intended to…Kubernetes2 min readKubernetes2 min read
Feb 10, 2018Persistent Volume Claims with Synology NAS on a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusterThis how-to will walk through the process of setting up an application with a persistent volume claim backed by a Synology NFS shared folder. To use a centralized NFS share and mount subdirectories for services requires using a specialized NFS provisioner. Maybe I’ll look into that one day. …Kubernetes3 min readKubernetes3 min read
