#random - January 2021

We'll see what happens with Ubuntu now that Brexit has arrived!

via @johncblandii

LearnInPublic is something I’ve been a fan of for a while.  I find this statement interesting “Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discord, they’re not public.”  I have always felt the slack format limits the benefit of answers given on specific help topics, which would be better served in SO, but the exploratory discussion…. that’s the kicker to me. Not a good format for SO, but great for discourse/threads.

Does anyone one here use the discord/slack community only because it doesn’t exist with such usage in a discourse/forum type flow? I’ve not been a heavy reddit user, thinking it wasn’t as active and used as something like this community, but I could be wrong.

I know this community has a discourse archive integration, but it’s honestly not the same as participating in that being the primary community.

Another interesting article related to the problem with chat based discussion on a larger scale https://m.signalvnoise.com/
cc @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) esp as I’m interested in your thoughts.

🍿 🍿 🍿

Container and Kubernetes can be complex beasts, especially for developers!
Gone are the days where developers hit a command, and a few seconds later the compiled software was ready for tests. When considering all the moving parts, the complexity and context switches break the development flow.
What if there was some magical tool that you could simply feed instructions like:

“Build this Dockerfile and replace the existing image on that Kubernetes cluster with the build results!” ASAP

My latest post about BuildKit CLI for kubectl shows on how to cut down deployment time by 66% to an already trivial hello world application.

. o O ( funny, but...$10/year or whatever doesnt really make me hurt all over. I wouldn't expect it hurts Elon much either... )

it hurts more in the feels than the pocket

I got to try out the beta of this product with a client — I’m a big fan. It’s super useful for any distributed teams that never get to work together.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/teamflow?bc=1

Erik suggested I share this so I’m posting here.

Mailbrew - Newsletter

Been trying to reduce the noise in my life a bit, and finding mailbrew a really good experience. Decided to curate my own blog + influencers/blog posts I’ve found that are interesting and share this. Paying for mailbrew now and figured would be cool to use it to replace rss feeds and share a mix of highlighted content I’ve come across.

For example, “You’re an Engineer, Be An Engineer” by @Josh Duffney, Yaml config highlight from Cloudposse, and more. Disclaimer, it includes my writing too so YMMV 🤷

Feedback welcome and appreciated (reply to newsletter to email me directly).

Fun Fact:

In the time AWS provisions an Elasticsearch Domain, you can:

1. Take a nap
2. Roast a whole chicken
3. Learn a new language
4. Do all of the above

Hello Guys

Someone know how could implement a basic POC with cloudposse?

I am new, can anyone guide me on where to start to learn about cloudposse

Cannot create cluster 'demo-dev-production-ready-k8s-cluster' because us-east-1e, the targeted availability zone, does not currently have sufficient capacity to support the cluster. Retry and choose from these availability zones: us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c, us-east-1d, us-east-1f

A “laughing bezos” Slack emoji would come in handy

I have just posted a new blog about tips on the CKA and CKAD exam for those interested! https://bradmccoydev.medium.com/kubernetes-journey-cka-ckad-exam-tips-ff73e4672833