Provisioning – Dicking with Docker

Terraform S3 remote state with Minio and Docker

By Simon Weald | 27th February 201930th May 2020 by Simon Weald

Whilst AWS’s free S3 tier is almost certainly sufficient to store Terraform’s remote state, it may be the case that you have a requirement to keep the data on-site, or alternatively if you’re using Terraform in an air-gapped environment then you have no choice but to self-host.

Over-engineering my website with Kubernetes

By Simon Weald | 18th March 201830th May 2020 by Simon Weald

A solution in need of a problem Like all good sysadmins, my personal website has been a ‘coming soon’ splash page for quite some time. According to the Wayback Machine, it’s been this way since some time in 2014. As I’m sure many can sympathise with, there are always far more interesting and shiny things to be experimenting with than building a website.