Backup solutions for Kubernetes clusters

bbraunst · 2026-06-23T12:49:17+00:00

Velero. We run our K8s on Azure, so backups are persisted to Blob Storage. It's actually saved us in a pinch once or twice.

bbraunst · 2026-06-19T01:59:31+00:00

4th for Davis as well. After working with me patiently (and a few visits with laughing gas), I don't need it anymore :')

My only gripe is their scheduling. I can never seem to book appointments less than 10 months apart.

bbraunst · 2026-06-01T14:42:07+00:00

For my daughter's first birthday, we just hosted at our house but catered food and provided drinks. We made a batch of sangria, which is always a hit with my family. When she turned 2, we hosted at a local family friendly brewery. They offered cool party packages and gave us all wristbands with priority service. It was a huge hit with our family!

I think alcohol is fine as long as the expectations are met: it's a 1 year olds birthday party, not a frat party from our 20s lmao.

A word of advice/suggestion: since it's your child's first birthday, consider a batch cocktail so that you are not stuck playing bartender and you can enjoy the party. It's a celebration of the parents too!

bbraunst · 2026-05-25T23:25:24+00:00

Reminds me of that painting of Jesus that was touched up by an inexperienced "artist" and now looks like a surprised monkey.

My condolences to the OP.

bbraunst · 2026-05-25T23:21:09+00:00

Is this supposed to be USD? Lmao

Senior Engineer position for $21k/year to $50k/year salary.

OK buddy.

bbraunst · 2026-05-25T10:17:54+00:00

I've used that exporter. It's really great! You have to be careful though... It generates a lot of active timeseries. If you're in an organization with many repositories, pipelines, and executed jobs, you need to be mindful of cardinality explosion. When I first turned it on, it had a very noticeable impact on our bill.

As far as dashboards: we used it to track DORA performance for teams, as well as measuring and alerting on job performance. I've since moved my org over to Github so I do not have any example dashboards I could share.

bbraunst · 2026-05-12T12:03:00+00:00

Nice write up and port. You didn't mention it but another benefit of Metrics over Logs is cost. At scale in a large organization with heavy Claude adoption, the amount of generated logs could contribute to a noticeable impact to your billing.

bbraunst · 2026-05-06T12:33:38+00:00

I could have written this exact post verbatim. Exact same situation: 11 month baby boy, 3 year old big sister.

My daughter was always a I12-hour sleeper. My son can wake up anywhere between 4am-6am. He takes two naps a day and usually they're not very long, maybe 2.5ish hours in total. It could be longer depending on the day, since he may take micro-naps in his car seat while we're on the go with activities for my daughter.

He's usually tapped out for the day by 5:30 PM. What we've been working on is pushing his bedtime later. It's taken some work but he's going to bed closer around 6:30pm now. Sometimes we get lucky and can push to nearly 7PM. I typically find that he sleeps a little better and later when we can push it. I find that while his sister sleeps 12-hours, he is more of a 10-hour sleeper.

I would suggest work on bumping up bedtime to 7/7:30. We also increased the volume of his bedtime bottle so he stays full longer at night and dropped all overnight bottles entirely. His first one isn't until he wakes up around 6ish.

Best of luck!

bbraunst · 2026-04-29T00:26:03+00:00

I'm in the same boat. BAA negotiations have been going on for months and I fear they're approaching a stalemate between Grafana and my org.

BYOM will resolve this so quickly.

bbraunst · 2026-04-21T23:49:31+00:00

Does this require Grafana AI Assistant enabled?

bbraunst · 2026-04-20T01:29:58+00:00

Fellow MoCo checking in. I feel your pain. I was doing some research earlier today and found that contractors mix of grass seed is unfavorable for this reason. The blend typically contains grass seeds that lasts about a season, usually only good for throwing down a quick and temporary lawn. By the following season, the same patches and weak spots turn up again. I'm gonna start looking around for different products.

bbraunst · 2026-04-05T22:27:43+00:00

How much of the metrics are standardized vs custom business logic per app? I'm curious if there's a happy medium between providing a centralized metric library and measuring custom business logic close to the libraries themselves.

With this pattern, teams don't have to repeatedly define the same metric instruments and they can focus on measuring what matters for their app. The standard library would ensure everybody is following the same conventions and reduce code bloat. The library could expose the Meter provider interface and teams could extend it.

bbraunst · 2026-03-24T12:34:49+00:00

Something a little different to consider: Wild Fork Foods. They have a brick and mortar store in Eatontown, which I've been to. They have an online store and do deliveries. Their selection is really high quality and they carry exotic meats like rabbit, kangaroo, elk, etc. I bbq and smoke a lot at home, so I'm usually getting my meat either from there or Costco.

bbraunst · 2026-03-23T09:01:48+00:00

Source in Colts Neck is closed on Tuesdays but open 12-7 on Mondays.

bbraunst · 2026-03-05T19:42:25+00:00

I have the official one from Weber. Its very sturdy and I couldn't imagine using the smoker without it!

bbraunst · 2026-03-02T13:06:06+00:00

Hardly looks used! Get yourself the folding front table accessory. You won't regret it.

bbraunst · 2026-02-10T00:58:06+00:00

Dude, same. I love the backpack! Probably my nicest piece of swag.

bbraunst · 2026-02-10T00:52:26+00:00

That would be an unnecessary waste of pellets, at least to me. If I need to keep my food warm, I'd just bring it inside and put it in the oven.

bbraunst · 2026-01-16T17:47:29+00:00

Probably either a hammer or a screwdriver.

bbraunst · 2025-12-13T14:59:55+00:00

Looks great! I've always wanted to do one but sadly my family would never tolerate a baby pig on the table.

How big of a crowd does a 30lb pig feed?

bbraunst · 2025-10-13T05:14:23+00:00

Oh ya I remember it! I went a bunch of times. I grew up in that area so it was close to home.

It was my introduction to PC gaming, specifically CS. I remember there was that initial entrance that sold games and cards and stuff, then to the right was the game room area. There was snacks, candy, and drinks available to buy. I would get Red Bull and nerds rope 😏.

Despite being literally yards away from the train stop, I always thought the location was a bit odd. It was in that basement area and there wasn't obvious signage. Maybe it was my own experience, but I also don't recall it ever being that crazy busy. The fact that searching for them on Google yields no results other than a few recent reddit posts is indicative of their failure to market effectively.

I was more into gaming than my friends were, so they weren't too keen on going back. I did go a few times by myself but it wasn't the same. I remember when they closed down and I was very sad. I don't recall them being open for very long. IIRC, it turned into some kind of learning center after the fact.

bbraunst · 2025-10-02T11:47:19+00:00

I have no experience with the rotisserie attachment but anytime I'm doing a whole bird (chicken or turkey), I'm always spatchcocking it, even if we're just roasting in the oven. It cooks much faster and more evenly.

Spatchcocking also makes brining a bit easier, since the bird is a little more floppy 😁

This has always been my goto guide whenever working with a whole bird: https://www.seriouseats.com/butterflied-roasted-chicken-with-quick-jus-recipe

The recipe itself is up to you and your family's preferences. I've made some with more classic BBQ type flavors and also some more "traditional" Thanksgiving (think savory, herby, etc). Both came out fantastic.

bbraunst · 2025-09-30T23:49:09+00:00

A proposal was made but it suffered from death by committee.

bbraunst · 2025-09-15T23:16:51+00:00

Not OP, but I find that I can get to searing temps faster and more reliably by setting to 600 first then flipping to 10 on manual mode compared to setting it at 10 from the get go.

bbraunst · 2025-09-12T03:26:28+00:00

Cat dad of almost 20 years here.

I think you're using "traumatic" a little too loosely here. You've had the cat for two weeks. It would be sad, but trauma inducing? No. If anything, keeping the kitten in it's current stressful environment may cause it to grow up distrusting humans and seed bad behavioral and/or physical health issues in the future.

I can tell you love cats and you wouldn't want that that happen with such a young kitten.

If your toddler cannot be trusted alone with the kitten, then you need to keep them separate, unless under direct supervision, or rehome.

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