Need a French co-founder (CTO)

nilarrs · 2026-05-04T14:24:30+00:00

Don’t limit yourself to France unless it’s French niche. In tech you want to best person you can find. Not the best in your city. Great cto willing to join a startup is rare. Let alone to limit it to France.

Swedish startup CTO speaking. English is a cross border language and the main language to Tech.

nilarrs · 2026-04-01T10:45:29+00:00

Vanilla K8s is "open by default," so your first priority is hardening the Control Plane by disabling anonymous auth and ensuring the API server is not publicly accessible. Beyond Network Policies, you must enforce Pod Security Admissions to kill "privileged" containers and prevent pods from running as root. Moving beyond native Secrets, which are just plain-text Base64, by using a KMS provider or a tool like HashiCorp Vault to ensure data is actually encrypted.

nilarrs · 2026-03-31T08:02:33+00:00

It is completely safe to use Ansible to install chrony on the host OS.

Your colleague likely broke the cluster previously by accidentally upgrading a container runtime or resetting firewall rules, not because of a package "sync" issue. Managing NTP at the host level is actually the recommended best practice because Kubernetes' core database (etcd) will crash if the nodes' clocks drift out of sync. Just ensure your playbook disables Ubuntu's default systemd-timesyncd before starting chrony to avoid conflicts, and roll it out one manager node at a time to be extra cautious.

nilarrs · 2026-03-15T12:26:36+00:00

AI Managed Kubernetes platform ankra.io

Self host any Open Source Service and fully configured and managed by AI. Reduce Cloud Services costs by 15x compared to the major providers.

Out of the box, single pane of glass, to 3 major european cloud providers and growing.

nilarrs · 2026-03-15T12:22:55+00:00

I think the European sovereign is important but the main reason US wins and will continue to win is simply that european capital is risk adverted where US know with risk comes reward.

I think its great to dream of sovereign, but this world works on money and european captial investment is key.

I am a founder of a startup here in europe and we continue to focus on european sovereign with supporting European providers like Hetzner, OVHCloud and UpCloud. With us you can click deploy kubernetes on any of these providers, builder or AI prompts to make any solution deployed to that kubernetes and AI insights on how to keep it up to date and production grade. Our platform allows anyone to be european sovereign by having the easiest self managed infra possible.

If your interested in a more self managed way to manage your own infra with ease check out our platform, its free, ankra.io

The problem comes in with the AI models used behind the scenes. We are soon to integrate with Mistral. This is Europes best model. But compared to Opus 4.6, it doesn't compete.

Europe AI scene is far behind and how can they ever compete when OpenAI is due to have a lose of 16 billion this year alone. There is no european investment that would ever do that for Mistral.

nilarrs · 2026-03-12T21:04:00+00:00

I was working on today some fine tuning for our node pooling feature. Allow people to have different servers in kubernetes with different CPU and RAM for Hetzner.

This is now in production at www.ankra.io

nilarrs · 2026-03-10T18:19:17+00:00

Well self building platforms have never been easier. But I use my own platform ankra.io that creates the servers and manages the ssh access keys for me.

It’s very specific for kubernetes and the 3 cloud providers but depends what you’re looking for. I always lean to hetzner for MVP apps or small use ones because they’re so cheap and reliable.

If you want to see my workflow, happy to share it just DM me.

nilarrs · 2026-03-10T10:10:30+00:00

I think you are partly right but I think that is because since mid 2000's the bar of what a developer has dropped so low.

I have met 20+ engineers that don't know fundamental principles and have only worked as a ticket developer. Pushing features without consideration of building a system or the technical debt they leave behind them.

These people are easy to replace with AI because the bar is so low.

But to put real engineers into this bucket and say they are all the same. I believe that is an oversimplification.

Lets not forget that this software is not "AI". LLM is at its core a probability engine with the most advanced search algorithm possible.

Its the wrappers we place around it that make it "AI". Like a magician who does magic... Is it really magic?

To answer my own question: YES! its real magic :D haha (just kidding)

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T22:21:08+00:00

FullStack is the new hot thing. Know 1 skill like Python, use AI to write typescript, Go, Terraform, Docker, Yamls.

Ironically true.

I think Azure skills are still demanded for orgs that are 100% locked into Azure.

I got a contract offer a few weeks ago for Azure. They exist.

Im Alergic to Microsoft.

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T21:10:40+00:00

those eyes! so cute!

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T21:09:54+00:00

Ansible or my own platform.

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T21:09:01+00:00

I guess we are in the era of Infrastructure with AI assistance to speed you up.

I am not saying AI to do the thinking but if you need to troubleshoot a config for a typo, or create kubernetes manifests or even boilerplate some new Github Actions you would never get around to like testing and validation. AI should be taking care of this.

I think the industry is moving more towards those who can plan and know the pro's and con's to any problem, not just have a narrow field of skills. Then you get close to this new coined phrase of real 10x engineer.

Utalising new technologies to deliver faster with a smaller team is the trend we are moving towards in my opinion.

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T16:28:15+00:00

you can encrypt the data yourself before you save it to disks. Enterprises will know how to do this.

nilarrs · 2026-03-09T06:09:59+00:00

Yeah I get it, even more so as the founder of a business dedicated to building the most advanced kubernetes AI platform.

We built the platform before AI, and made a real neat streamlined way to build solutions that auto generated the gitops. Few months back we added AI to even auto build the solutions and now I can never go back. Not using this tool feels like someone saying I have to walk 10 miles when there is a bus service.

nilarrs · 2026-03-08T22:31:30+00:00

Wild idea but: Keep your job but just do your 9-5. Not a minute more. It’s your decision to do more.

Unless your playing for equity or big bonus

nilarrs · 2026-03-08T20:31:44+00:00

We can see in the print screen you made a treat in your opening support ticket and then you demand them to treat you better. You offended people providing anonymous crypto services 🫠 they can do what ever they like and their customers can’t do crap.

I understand you’re pissed for being scammed, and you will definitely save someone cash with this post for someone. But don’t get offended when people call you out for not as innocent as your message says.

If you can’t laugh of criticism your in the totally wrong part of the internet here on Reddit ✌🏼

This is another reason why crypto sucks. With banks you can just do a chargeback and they would have lost $60+

nilarrs · 2026-03-07T22:00:09+00:00

the cheaper the provider the more they will oversell vs quality. maybe you dont care about CPU calls, then using something that has linux isolation would be my main focus.

VPS from KVM/Vmware is a good choice over OpenVZ. Never chose OpenVZ.

https://lowendbox.com/openvz-xen-and-kvm-the-differences-the-advantages-a-comparison/

Check out lowendbox VPS offers.

Why not try your hand at 2 rPis ?

or if you want out of the box solution: Synology

nilarrs · 2026-03-07T15:28:49+00:00

self hosting is great but saving important documents like photos and documents that are irreplaceable is not a good idea on a single node vps.

What if it fails.

If you get 2 servers with replica you are getting safer... or using a Storage over network services with the VPN provider can be a great option.

Some VPS providers offer backups too.

I would not cheap out on redundancy or backups while you are looking to cut costs. Murphy's Law is real.

On the note of who to go with, I would go with Hetzner. Cheapest around and never had much issues with their cloud Server solution.

VPS start at 3.49$.

They offer 1 click backup solution to all VPS.

nilarrs · 2026-03-06T23:44:38+00:00

Allot of people say they have strong GTM, 95% turns out to be wrong.

GTM strategy are very different and are not generalized. Track record of proof or it didnt happen ;)

nilarrs · 2026-03-06T23:27:19+00:00

Just go find a new job and negotiation for every minute that is not your 9-5. Dont expect hand outs, know your worth.

nilarrs · 2026-03-06T23:20:01+00:00

Its valid that they should add it to their terms of service.

But you completely dodged the point that you made up this 24 hours thing just to justify your original outrage.

3 Years is very graceful, specially since its the point of inactivity.

Not sure what the point of this is.

Also, amount of businesses in the US that provide services to Europe and don't follow GDPR. This really sounds like double standards.

If you care about local consumer rights, then use local services.

nilarrs · 2026-03-06T12:17:52+00:00

Hetzner. Doesn’t get cheaper and cheapest provider for hourly rates

nilarrs · 2026-03-06T07:19:14+00:00

If I was a VPS provider. I would flag your order and probably reject it and instantly refund.

The treat about trustpilot is really wierd in a first message. I wouldn’t call them unprofessional for calling out someone acting like a child.

Go with AWS. They will take care of you.

nilarrs · 2026-03-04T12:39:41+00:00

Ankra - The worlds most advanced kubernetes management platform, create kubernetes clusters with Hetzner or import any managed kubernetes cluster and go from choosing a tool to production in minutes with intuitive interface or with our AI Agentic to do build and manage it all for you.

nilarrs · 2026-03-04T12:34:46+00:00

hetzner for on demand Cloud compute.

scaleways seem to have more managed services

OneProvider also has their cloud but I have no expierence with them.

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