In the Cloud Native world, the use of proxies is growing in popularity. One such use-case for a proxy is to support API gateway functionality. Ambassador is one of these API gateways. Read on to learn more!
Cloud Architecture and Observability
Category: System Administration
Blog articles written by Steve Flanders about system administration.
I have been talking a bit about Kubernetes lately so I figured I would cover how to deploy and maintain a Kubernetes cluster. I use kops, but multiple options exist. Read on to learn more!
If you are using Kubernetes then you are likely familiar with the kubectl command. In this post, I would like to cover some of the application management commands it provides and you will encounter. Read on to learn more!
I have been running my blog out of my house since forever. While at VMware, in addition to my WordPress VM I was running many other VMs in my home lab. Given my job change, I have less of a need for my home lab. In fact, the only VM I had left was my WordPress VM. Given this, I decided to move my blog to my Synology box. Read on to learn more!
Logs are a powerful way to investigate system issues as well as perform system auditing, but what protocol should you send events over? In this post, I would like to discuss the topic and make recommendations. Read on to learn more!
I recently attempted to authenticate to Salesforce via SAML provided by G Suite. I ran into a ton of issues so I thought I would write-up a post. Read on to learn more!
This is going to be a short post, but hopefully it helps someone. I recently started configured SAML apps in G Suite and discovered for the built-in applications the icons are not what you expect. Read on to learn more and how to address.
What do you do when you have a boot partition that is too small? This is the exact problem I tried to solve in my home lab. Read on to learn more!
In my last post, I covered an error message I received randomly on mac os. After fixing the issue, I noticed that Outlook was behaving oddly including:
- Calendar was not updating
- All Calendar invites/updates/removals arrived as empty messages
- Any time I deleted an email it would shortly reappear in the same folder
- If I selected a message that had reappeared, it would magically disappear shortly thereafter
What was going on? Read on to learn more!
A few weeks back, I was using my computer over the weekend. When I was done I did what I always do, I locked the screen and went to bed. When I came back and authenticated I was presented with the following pop-up
mac os needs to repair your library to run applications
What would ensure is another example of trial and error due to missing log messages. Read on to learn more!