This is where I write about technology after it’s survived contact with my reality.
If it’s here, it’s been run, broken, fixed, and when I trust it again. Then I write about it.





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I was eager to explore OpenShift’s autoscalin...

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Looking forward to my next post where I will be making some ingress changes to my cluster.

Before I do that, I want to walk through adding a second node to my OKD cluster.

Based on the decisions I documented during my original OKD install, I already have a good idea of how this should go...

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AWX and Dynamic NFS Provisioner Part 1

As a early Ansible user, I wanted to see what the modern, production-grade evolution of Ansible looks like today and begin using it in my envornment to enforce state and consistency.

As I work my way through the Kubernetes and OpenShift stack, with...

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I was playing with my new OKD cluster and getting some workloads running. It was all simple enough, but I really don’t like spending time doing things that are not prod-like.

I know that most shops are probably not trusting upstream registries , additionally OpenShift does not allow contain...

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Yeah, LDAP auth. I wanted to sit down and start doing some of the cool stuff with OKD. However, I could not stop myself. I needed to understand how to connect external authentication to OKD first.

It was tempting to just keep running with the admin account created during the initial deploy....

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Well, I got it done...

I would say the image perfectly describes how I tend to dive into greenfield tasks. If I am asked to deploy something new (stuff I love doing), my first question is usually, where is the installer? Yes, I will glean the documentation, of course, but I need real cont...