I’ve been playing a lot with ArgoCD recently and decided it was time to migrate as much of my platform to being managed using GitOps as possible. Whilst it’s taken some time to get to grips with, it has enabled me to ensure all my code is committed to the relevant repositories. However, it has forced me to consider what would happen in an “extinction-level” event in the environment.
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Recently I decided to migrate my GitLab instance off a RHEL VM and across to Kubernetes. Partly to reduce the number of virtual machines running in my environment, but more so because Kubernetes is now my platform of choice for my infrastructure applications.

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Mindmaps are useful

This past year has unfortunately not been a productive one for the blog. Daily work, a lab in a perpetual state of disrepair, and family constraints have conspired to keep me producing content.

Well, today I’m back, and with a plethora of ideas and projects to share!

Over the coming weeks, I plan a major overhaul of the lab, and of my on-premises tenant that hosts my private workloads.

One of these will be to move my blog from hosted WordPress to Kubernetes on-prem. The second part of the migration will be to Hugo.

So… lots to come. Stay tuned!