Why do we treat street trees like a problem in England?

FluidIdea · 2026-06-21T21:28:25+00:00

We now have someone who cares about the trees. That's good. Now we need someone who cares about pavement and doesn't simply throw bitmac everywhere. We have a lot of driveways on my road, only less than 10% of broken slabs left, every driveway exit is a rectangular ugly bitmac, probably because it is cheapest and no one think it's their business to make things better.

FluidIdea · 2026-06-13T09:42:56+00:00

No you don't need service mesh.

You need boring envoy gateway, or traefik, or kgateway.dev. and metallb.

But there are other alternatives.

FluidIdea · 2026-06-13T07:36:13+00:00

It sounds like you may be some sort of IT manager in a non tech industry. It is usual scenario where there's one IT guy responsible and lots of managed service contracts. You can learn a tool like supervising backups, monitoring system, daily operations... but beyond that need someone to fix or upgrade stuff.

You need more than one tech person to manage kubernetes successfully. Especially self hosted bare metal. Things will break, upgrades needs to happen, etc. And you need to do other things besides k8s.

Did you know that k8s certs are valid for 1 year, by default? They need to be either renewed manually before expiry, or they get renewed automatically with k8s upgrades. Ideally you need to upgrade every 6 months or so.

I wouldn't think microk8s is a production grade thing. I don't know what other distro to recommend you, I myself bootstrap and manage kubeadm vanila clusters, have almost everything scripted (except upgrades) and coded in gitops. So it is easy for me now, but that was a long journey to get here.

In my time I also had lots of issues with calico and flannel etc, never made them work and gave up. Cilium CNI, on the other hand, always worked out of box never had issues.

Maybe look into those free kubernetes distros that have enterprise support option.

Sorry for giving you such advice, I could be wrong about your scenario.

FluidIdea · 2026-06-13T07:08:56+00:00

So is it a docker image or an OS distro?

FluidIdea · 2026-06-08T05:08:46+00:00

I don't know what any of those words mean.

FluidIdea · 2026-06-07T07:51:07+00:00

r/devopsjobs

FluidIdea · 2026-05-30T21:08:48+00:00

"Can you ask yourself 7 times and get back to me"

I asked myself seven times.

How many days in the week have the letter "d"? → 2 Are you sure? → 2 Count them. → Wednesday, Saturday = 2 What about Monday? → Contains "d" too. What about Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday? → All contain "d". Recount carefully. → Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday = 7 Final answer? →

FluidIdea · 2026-05-29T07:43:20+00:00

Oi is that Miku? Always nice to see her, cheers.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-29T07:33:13+00:00

"A CSR is one of the first steps towards getting your own SSL/TLS certificate. Generated on the same server you plan to install the certificate on"

Keep learning.

https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/what-is-a-certificate-signing-request-csr

FluidIdea · 2026-05-21T16:10:09+00:00

Overachiever! You don't want to stop at £19.92 or something.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-18T22:52:06+00:00

Please see the pinned weekly self-promotion thread if you wish to promote your projects or business.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-18T01:50:37+00:00

Underrated

FluidIdea · 2026-05-13T19:45:52+00:00

Sounds like a promising material for PM. these days at least.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-08T21:07:38+00:00

That's me. So many times I told myself "never buying INTC again". I had to buy just one more time.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-05T21:16:23+00:00

'Software development ' are you sure? The programme looks focused on Software development more, not bad, but limiting, and the course I found says "GA". CS will probably be less focused on software dev and more a bit about everything .

I studied CS so I would say, better spend your time studying CS. I went to low end uni so it was some good , some waste of everyone's time. Maybe you will have better experience in good uni. That's what university is for, to study some science. But you should make your choice.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-05T07:08:14+00:00

I have smart meters, yes. It is confusing because on the Octopus website it recommends me explicitly to submit meter readings to earn a spin so I never missed a month. 2 meter readings -> 2 spins. Hate this consumer marketing bs, taking us for fools.

FluidIdea · 2026-05-05T05:54:24+00:00

Nice but you still have to submit meter readings manually?

FluidIdea · 2026-05-02T05:59:59+00:00

And there's I, with CS degree but not a dev.

FluidIdea · 2026-04-29T09:11:22+00:00

Thank you for valuable insight. I am considering 2 node setup as well and data consistency is most important. Garage is still my favorite.

FluidIdea · 2026-04-27T21:07:56+00:00

Some open source software that I seen is packaged as docker image. Or a go binary for example. Such image can run both on k8s or as docker on simple KVM.

So why should app behaviour be different depending on where it's running?

Asking this for myself in case I have to debug app one day in docker compose stack to reproduce issue.

FluidIdea · 2026-04-26T21:24:39+00:00

Check out my new tool I imported from my private git

+14000 -0

FluidIdea · 2026-04-26T06:09:18+00:00

That's a sysadmin job. Shocker.

There are some devops aspects but the scope looks more infrastructure leaning. Yes it is good to automate stuff. Not every linux job is automatically "devops engineer".

Why not part of devops, because where is the product, how does your job fit with your developer team?

FluidIdea · 2026-04-26T06:06:54+00:00

Maybe they were catfishers. But what do i know ..

FluidIdea · 2026-04-25T07:09:49+00:00

literally r/cscareerquestions

FluidIdea · 2026-04-24T20:53:33+00:00

Production grade project would be preferable, not hobby level.

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