dnscontrol has got to be one of my most beloved “DevOps” tools out there. Possibility of describing DNS in a config file (even though, for whatever reason, javascript was chosen for syntax) gives me huge peace of mind. It can integrate with plethora of different providers through their APIs and almost every major release brings even more of them. Ever since I learned about its existence I use it all the time, everywhere I go. Just smash it into git, ensure some review takes place and roll it out, everything fully automated through CI piepelines. If that doesn’t sound beautiful I don’t know what does 🤷🏻♂️
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I touched this way or another on the Kubernetes topic—first, it was the part of this series in the Contexts post where I wrote about kctx which I use almost daily; second, it was a dedicated post about Kubernetes specifically, discussing what I like and dislike about it etc.
Here's my coworker, Chris: [...]strong opinions about how annoying it is that every SaaS tool in the world now has documents, an issue tracker and a chatbot, so we all just spend our days searching for that thing our coworker said 2 months ago in that Slack channel.
Not too long ago I kicked off my Debian PPA. While building packages is a rather fixed problem in my case, I haven't published them on my own in quite some time. Back in the day, I used to rely on reprepro, but there were couple of shortcomings
Writing in the previous post in the series about the way I like my interactive shell to be configured, I did touch on the context aspect briefly: Well, OK, maybe the other nicety is using a right-hand prompt as well for some stuff (mainly context info, like venv etc.) I
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