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Rebuilding crismar.me in Terraform

Howdy. It's been a while since I've maintained the blog. So instead of upgrading everything manually I've just decided to rewrite everything in Terraform and migrate the data. Create the new Droplet using Terraform First, we need to set up the Digital Ocean Terraform provider following this guide. I added

Kubernetes

January & February '18: ReactiveOps, Career Goals, PyCaribbean

Long time no see. I’ve kept busy and also got great news. On the 5th of February, I started a job as a Site Reliability Engineer for ReactiveOps. I’m excited and grateful for this opportunity. Today is my first day as a Site Reliability Engineer for @ReactiveOps Very

conference

My CloudNativeCon + KubeCon '17 Experience

I was awarded a diversity scholarship to go to CloudNativeCon + Kubecon in Austin. I was selected in the second round, only 30 scholarships were offered at first. However, thanks to the efforts of the diversity committee they were able to offer 73 more scholarships. I’m very grateful for the

GCP

Journal: Latter Half of October '17

So here is an update on what I’ve been doing in the latter half of October. Prometheus I’m finally playing around with Prometheus and monitoring which is something I wanted to do for a long time. I’ve started by creating a 5 node cluster on GKE and

kubeadm

September & October '17: kubeadm, K8s API, VIM, and a little Housekeeping

I’m trying a new approach for my documenting process. Namely: Shorter posts on the blog. More tweets to share more of the day-to-day. Walkthrough guides will now be versioned(as they should) on GitHub. Without further ado here’s what I’ve been up to: Bare Metal & kubeadm

conference

My Hashiconf '17 Experience

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Hashiconf ‘17 in Austin, Texas. I loved the atmosphere at the event and the city. I met some interesting people and learned how they use Hashicorp products to solve their problems. Here is a brief summary of my favorite talks and experiences.

AWS

Creating a Simple Cluster with Terraform

Since my last post I’ve been reading about Consul. Also, I found an interesting book: Site Reliability Engineering by Google. So far I’ve read the intro and first chapter and I’m captivated. I want to take my career into SRE/DevOps and this book provides good insight.

AWS

Creating Infrastructure with Terraform

I’m attending HashiConf ‘17, an annual tech conference from HashiCorp. I came across HashiCorp sometime ago when I was playing around with Vagrant, a neat tool for creating and managing dev environments using virtual machines. I became aware of the conference thanks to Twitter and reached out to the

GitHub

July & August 2017: My first PRs

So last time I mentioned I was looking to contribute to the Kubernetes project. After an initially steep learning curve, I’ve managed to get two PRs approved on Service Catalog, a Kubernetes incubator project. Here’s how that happened. How I got started I was looking for a good

Kubernetes

June 2017 Journal: What I've Been up to

Howdy folks! It’s been a while. I’ve kept myself busy this past month learning about different things in kubernetes and distributed systems. I’ve document most of it but I felt that nothing was worth a post that is until I found this article by Sam Jarman titled

AWS

AWS EC2 + Bitnami and HTTPS w/Let's Encrypt

I ran out of credit for Google Cloud. Turns out running a cluster is quite expensive. For the sake of having a blog while I keep learning about kubernetes and other technologies I decided to go with a simpler(and cheaper) approach to blogging. Enter AWS + Bitnami I chose to

Docker

Let There be a Domain

Now that the blog is back up finally we can finally get around to setting up a domain. First thing we would need is a static IP to point the domain to. So let’s do. Static IP on GKE for a Kubernetes Service I did not find an official

Docker

From 0 to Blogging: WordPress on Kubernetes

I want to become a SRE/Distributed Systems Engineer. An expert in the field suggested I started small by setting up a WordPress blog using Kubernetes + Docker on a local machine or a cloud like a droplet from Digital Ocean or GKE from Google. So this is my journey setting

Docker

Blog Day 1. Site Unavailable!?

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 around 6:30 pm Just got home from work to find my brand new blog very slow. Which I find odd since I’m still at 104.196.107.177 and only shared the IP with a friend. So I’m jumped on the cloud shell