I'll preface this by saying that I don't know how to name things. So I'll just call this The Cluster for this blogpost. This project is basically a Kubernetes cluster which spans the entirety of the island of Mauritius. I gave a fun presentation on the v1 of this project…
I have several parts to my Kubecon experience this year round. For starters, I made it to Rejekts this year, which hadn't been possible in Paris. And most importantly, my talk, which hadn't been accepted to the main KubeCon lineup, had been accepted for Rejekts! So this was also going…
I made it to KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe yet again this year, making it my second KubeCon ever! I had attended last year, in 2024, though that trip had been financed by my parents on the occasion of my A-level results. On the other hand, this year, everything was paid for…
Until recently, I did databases in a controversial manner - a MySQL pod in a deployment (not even a statefulset) with a PVC. It is simple. And it works. But it's not the Cloud Native Way. So, as I was installing Immich, which specifically asked for a postgres database, I…
I host a lot of things on my servers. This one has been long overdue - and delayed when my monolith's SSD died abruptly. I have a replacement incoming, as well as an 8TB server-grade hard disk on its way. With this, and my Wasabi S3 storage, I feel ready…