Every now and then, I publish one of these “Posts from the Past” articles that looks back on content I’ve created and posted over the life of this site. This year marks 20 years of content—I can hardly believe it! Don’t worry, though; you won’t have to go through 20 years of past posts. Here is a selection of posts from mid- to late October over the last decade or so. I hope you find something useful, informative, or at least entertaining!

October 2024

Last year I shared information on how to use Pulumi to stand up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster with Bottlerocket OS on the Kubernetes nodes—without using any higher-level Pulumi components.

October 2022

In 2022, after getting irritated with what I felt was a poor user experience when accessing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters created with Pulumi, I published this post on how to change the Kubeconfig file for a more streamlined user experience.

October 2021

Cluster API is the name of the game for multiple posts in October 2021. First I wrote this article on kustomize transformer configurations for Cluster API v1beta1 (so that you can use kustomize to manipulate Cluster API manifests), followed up later that month with an article on influencing Cluster API AMI selection.

I also touched upon using the external (out of tree) cloud provider for AWS that month, a topic I am revisiting soon as I explore integrating Talos Linux with AWS.

October 2020

More Cluster API content—this time discussing IaC considerations for Cluster API (think things like integrating workload clusters with existing AWS workloads or services).

October 2019

In October 2019 I explored using jk to programmatically create Kubernetes manifests, and discussed how to use kustomize with kubeadm configuration files.

October 2018

Plenty of articles discuss the use of kubeadm to bootstrap Kubernetes clusters (including a few I wrote!), but what of talking about using kubeadm to stand up an etcd cluster? I’ve got you covered!

October 2017

Let’s get recursive: check out this “Posts from the Past” article from October 2017!

October 2016

Amid a bunch of content related to Vagrant, I found this gem on using Ansible to manage your AWS infrastructure.

October 2015

Flashing back an entire decade, the OpenStack Summit was happening in Tokyo, Japan, and I was liveblogging sessions. Among the sessions I attended and liveblogged was a session on Carina, a containers-as-a-service offering. Read my liveblog of the Carina session.

Interested in finding more posts from the past? Feel free to browse the site archives, which have a link to every single post I’ve ever published. If you find something interesting, share it on social media and tag me! I’m on Twitter/X, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

Thanks for reading!