I’ve been running a short-term experiment across the GKE Compute options within my “Home Lab” (read: GCP-hosted Google Kubernetes Engine) with a view to optimise for a balance between ease of operation and cost efficiency. If that sounds useful to you, then by all means read on! Let’s dive right…

In this post I’ll describe some of the steps I’ve taken to spin up a copy of Plausible Analytics on an existing Kubernetes cluster. I’ll be using Google Kubernetes Engine, but in most regards this should work fine on any provider. This is actually an article I first penned a…

In this blog post I’m going to talk through my recent experiences as I attempted to ditch Docker Desktop — the licensing changes that come into effect at the end of January being the primary motivator. Without going into any detail about it, let’s just say I’m not a fan…

When things go wrong — and yes, they will go wrong — it’s extremely helpful to have easy access to a set of runbooks to guide the unfortunate engineer through the steps needed to mitigate the problem as swiftly as possible. …

I’ve just finished binging on a whole host of talks from KubeCon EU 2021, and thought I’d scribble down some of my immediate thoughts — from the talks I “went” to, as well as more generally about virtual conferencing these days. …

This was first posted on my personal website on 2nd Feb 2021. That article also includes some screen captures, so head there if you want to see this stuff in action! In this post I’m going to talk through the approach I use to switch between multiple Google Kubernetes Engine…

It’s probably natural to get a bit contemplative as one year rolls into another. …

Hi — we are Alex Moss (Engineering Lead) and Rob Hornby (Product Owner) for the John Lewis & Partners Digital Platform. Today we’re talking about our team’s first venture into running a Chaos Day — a series of chaos experiments against our platform. It was January 2020, and we had…

In this post, I’ll briefly introduce krew, a plugin manager for kubectl, and then run through some of the plugins I’ve discovered with it that I’ve found particularly useful. Yes! Made it through the intro without a clickbait title … “top 10 krew plugins to help you devop harder” If…