Posts

2021

14 April

How I take Notes
My note-taking system using Joplin.
14 February

Running Nomad for home server
Setting up a single node Nomad and Consul server to deploy self hosted workloads.
29 January

Setup Gitlab Runner with AWS ECR
How to setup Gitlab Runner with cross account AWS ECR access

1 December

Designing a simple Job Queue in Golang
This is a tutorial for understanding how to design a Job Queue pattern using Golang
27 November

Analysis Paralysis - CrashLoopBackoff
My frustrations on how analysis paralysis slows me down
8 November

Migrating my blog to Zola
The reasons I ported my blog from Hugo and my first experience with Zola
18 October

Import existing Route53 records in Terraform
A quick guide on importing Route53 records to Terraform
3 October

Setting up a RIPE Atlas Probe
A quick tutorial on how to host a RIPE Atlas Probe and some general caveats that you should be aware of
18 September

Monitoring my home network
Setting up a home network monitoring stack built with Telegraf, Grafana and Raspberry Pi
23 April

Using Tailscale for home server
In this post, I'll be talking about how I use Tailscale as a mesh VPN and some updates to my previous home server setup
2 February

DNS Lookups in Kubernetes
In this post, I'll talk about how I learnt about FQDN, Search Paths and ndots to tackle slow DNS resolution in Kubernetes
14 January

Resize PVC in Kubernetes
Easily expand Kubernetes Persistent Volumes
12 January

sshuttle - A better ssh tunnel
Poor man's VPN
11 January

Use netcat for port scanning
A very quick guide to debug port connectivity issues
1 January

kubectl wait
A one-liner command to wait on K8s resources for changes

30 December

Introducing kubekutr
kubekutr is a cookie cutter template tool for generating Kubernetes resource manifests
11 November

A quick primer on dig
Learn how to use dig (DNS lookup tool) effectively with practical examples
11 November

GitOps approach to Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
Setup a deployment pipeline using Gitlab CI/CD for continuous delivery to AWS EKS
1 November

Intro to RBAC in EKS
A short introduction to how authentication and authorization works for EKS clusters
22 September

Kubernetes cluster on RPi
Running k3s and self-hosting stuff on an RPi cluster
29 June

My Personal Networking Setup
Self hosting personal VPN and DNS server
15 April

Common Docker Mistakes - Episode 1
Sharing my Docker Learnings
23 March

Setting up Kong API Gateway - Part 2/2
Ansible Playbook for Deploying Kong Cluster - part 2
23 March

Setting up Kong API Gateway - Part 1/2
Ansible Playbook for Deploying Kong Cluster - part 1
17 March

Adding Prometheus configuration to your CI/CD workflow
Linting Prometheus Config using Gitlab CI/CD

11 October

Makefile for Golang projects
Using Makefile to Automate your Build Process
28 July

Bi-Weekly Music Post Part 4
Sharing some Awesome Music - part 4
28 June

Bi-Weekly Music Post Part 3
Sharing some Awesome Music - part 3
14 June

Bi-Weekly Music Post Part 2
Sharing some Awesome Music - part 2
3 June

Receiving notifications from Supervisor
Listening to Events in Supervisor
28 May

Bi-Weekly Music Post Part 1
Sharing some Awesome Music - part 1