Hosting

In my ongoing efforts to reduce the reliance on US companies and services, I decided from Let’s Encrypt to the Italian Actalis. Sure, Let’s Encrypt works fine, is non-profit and had a huge impact on today’s internet security, but nonetheless it is still US based and required to comply with US law and government requests. This could also include breaking the chain of trust for certificates while prohibiting to share this information with the public.

Acorn is an application deployment framework for k8s, that tries to simplify instead of introducing another layer of indirection. I won’t cover all details and problems it tries to solve here, instead I’d like to share some experiences and thoughts.

With OPA you implement decisions of policies, not their enforcement. This avoids confusion between multiple servers that might come from different implementations of the policies.

All the hosted Kubernetes solutions I know of want you to pay roughly 10$ pre month for each load balancer.

I have been playing around with minikube for quite some time now. Though as I run minikube on my Mac, I experienced multiple bugs regarding accessing the cluster and it’s published ports.

I gave the newest tool of Charm Gum a try. It allows to create interactive bash scripts in just a few lines of code.

I have never done anything productive with Kubernetes before. But it is a really tough topic to get started with. It’s overwhelming.