In late 2023, I added some Go code for use with Pulumi to stand up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster “from scratch,” meaning without using any prebuilt Pulumi

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Welcome to Technology Short Take #183! Fall is in the air; the nights and mornings are cooler and the leaves are turning (or have already turned in some areas!). I’ve

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Welcome to Technology Short Take #182! I have a slightly bulkier list of links for you today, bolstered by some recent additions to my RSS feeds and supplemented by some

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The Image Builder project is a set of tools aimed at automating the creation of Kubernetes disk images—such as VM templates or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). (Interesting side note: Image

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Pulumi, like Terraform and OpenTofu, has the ability to store its state in a supported backend. You can store the state in one of the blob/object storage services offered by

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I’ve recently had the opportunity to start using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (X1C) Gen11 as my primary work system. Since I am not a Windows person—I don’t think I’ve

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Welcome to Technology Short Take #181! The summer of 2024 is nearly over, and Labor Day rapidly approaches. Take heart, though; here is some reading material for your weekend. From

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I was first introduced to SOPS at a platform engineering event hosted in Denver last year. SOPS, which is an acronym for Secrets OPerationS, describes itself as “an editor of

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For those that aren’t aware, Talos Linux is a purpose-built Linux distribution designed for running Kubernetes. Bootstrapping a Talos Linux cluster is normally done via the Talos API, but this

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Back in March of this year, I talked about how I started using markdownlint-cli to perform linting against the Markdown source files that are used by Hugo to generate this

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