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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 23

Lex Feathers 🍂Jan 16

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

AI should be a choice. Here’s where you stand.

Voting has closed. See the final results of the public vote on AI.

Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 23

When you're both a gamer and technology professional and you've got your desktop doubling as a K8S node on a network with limited GPU compute, you do what you must.

https://gist.github.com/litui/14d516fd6591999ae0e30c6da7fa645c

Steam game launch script to scale down GPU-intensive kubernetes pods before starting a game (with bonus static launch options).

Steam game launch script to scale down GPU-intensive kubernetes pods before starting a game (with bonus static launch options). - k8s-gamerun.sh

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

@SaguaroLynx self-hosting obviously impacts some of the collaborative potential depending on how many devs are in your house, but I'm fortunate to have at least a couple here who do the git thing, and I have some plans to open it up to a small circle of trusted folks separately.

Github the tool is pretty useful, but getting my lifelines out of the cloud is pretty important to me.

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

@SaguaroLynx I self-host it. Quite powerful, though I suspect more chonky than it needs to be on account of being built on a whole lot of Ruby.

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

@nicr9 sweet. I've heard about ArgoCD (another person's at-work tool), but haven't really looked at the dev side yet since I've been so focused on migrating my virtual infra. Just been trying to absorb all the underpinnings of Kubernetes. Hell of a learning curve but I think I understand some things decently now =)

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

Personally, I kinda like the use of namespaces for "application suites" similar to how I used Docker Compose namespaces. This covers some trust-related considerations between apps, but not necessarily users. Also not necessarily trust-zones or more broad service mesh kinda concepts. Maybe that's better solved through more/multi cluster, I dunno, but it seems bothersome.

Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

Am I the only one who feels, so far, that Kubernetes needs more (optional?) organizational hierarchy both above and below namespaces?

Like yeah namespaces can be pretty arbitrary, but deciding what concepts a namespace should encompass seems to come with tradeoffs no matter what you choose.

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

@nicr9 BTW, strong recommend on BGP for LoadBalancer ingresses, services, or gateways if your home router supports it.

I had a ton of issues with L2 announcements (wifi in particular wasn't getting announcements consistently) but even just internally on a LAN, bgp is a great way to keep inbound IPs for services separate but still accessible.

Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial Jan 3

who up waxing they gibbous

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Aria Burrell 🇨🇦Jan 3

@nicr9 Exactly. Also, choices made in a home setting don't necessarily reflect the practical considerations I'd be making in a work scenario, etc. But if you can't mess around on your home gear, where can you lol?

That said, doing baremetal configuration with Ansible and using OpenTofu for provisioning everything in the cluster has been critically important in allowing me to fuck things up and try again. =) God knows how many times I've rebuilt the cluster now 😂