Trying out Talos Linux

After seeing Talos having a cult-like following in the Kubernetes Homelab Discord server, I thought I could give it a try for myself and see what the hype is about. I'm a SUSE/Rancher fanboy, and my homelab runs K3S. I'm not new to Kubernetes! While we have mainline Linux…

CI/CD For meetup.mu

Meetup.mu was a weekend project for me. It then became a lot bigger as people saw its importance. Sooo, in the end, this became my first project to get contributors who are not me, myself, or I. When I was developing locally, it was really easy to run a…

"I Can't Contribute to Open Source"

For a lot of people in the IT sphere, especially those who program for fun, Open Source is seen as this awesome concept - software built for the people by the people; and a lot of people really want to contribute to open source projects but don't know where to…

Tech is Inherently Political

When I started becoming part of the IT community here in Mauritius, I decided to try my best not to be political on social media. The main "hub" of IT people in the community are on Twitter, and that's where I have an account. In my bio, for the longest…

Secrets Handling in Kubernetes

In your deployments locally or through Docker, you will most definitely be using a .env file for all your secrets - API keys, database credentials, and the like. In the world of Kubernetes, nothing is as simple as just a .env file. In fact, configuration of your deployments will be…