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How Much Did I Pay for Electricity, Petrol and Gas in 2023?
Am I one of those minimalists? No. The secret is, I paid 0 for petrol and gas – I have no need of them since I fully electrified my home. Here are the milestones of my journey to full electrification: I suspended my gas account in May 2023 and the process costed me $88. With…
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A GKE Issue: Metadata Service Is Unreachable In Nodes
Recently I encountered some errors in a GKE cluster where a lot of pods were stuck at crash loop backoff state, which means the pods couldn’t recover on their own. When taking a closer look, I saw errors like: It’s a DNS issue then. However when I created a pod and ran some DNS tests…
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ArgoCD, Jsonnet and Tanka in 2024
A few years ago, I got to know Jsonnet and I loved it at first sight. I used a nice little tool called tanka to manage my Jsonnet manifests and I got them working together with ArgoCD, and finally I re-deployed my blog using this combo. Everything worked like a charm, until… Recently I upgraded…
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How to Enable Compression in Istio Ingress Gateway
TL; DR: here’s a code snippet to turn on gzip compression for Istio’s ingress gateway, using Envoy filter. Tested with Istio 1.16 and Kubernetes 1.26. To test it with curl: 🙂
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3 Years Later, How Is My PowerWall 2 Keeping Up?
TL; DR: I’ve installed my PowerWall 2 3 years ago. It wasn’t cheap but the quality is great too. There’s 0 issue so far and it helped a lot to “keep my lights on”. And if calculated using recent electricity rate, it has saved me $3,115 so it’s still a long way 🙂 Uptime: 100%…
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How to Mount an Existing Google Persistent Disk to a Pod in GKE
TL; DR: Below are steps to mount an existing Google Persistent Disk to a pod in a GKE cluster in the same region. Most of the time I’d prefer to run stateless pods in Kubernetes clusters – they come, they go, as if nothing happened. When there are things to be persisted, a Persistent Volume…
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How to Run Tableau Server in GKE(Google Kubernetes Engine)
TL; DR: here are my notes to host a fully working Tableau Server in a GKE cluster. It’s not fully Kubernetes native but still I think it’s better than running as a VM. This is correct as of Dec 2023. The Docker Container Image There doesn’t seem to have an official docker image for Tableau…
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Github Hosted Runners and Their Access to GCP VPC
TL; DR: Given plenty of free time of Github hosted runners, I’m tempted to use it instead of running self-hosted ones in my GCP environment. Here are some options to grant network access to my GCP VPC. Prerequisites: Google Workload Identity Federation for Github Runners Option #1, grab the public IP of the runner on-the-fly…