The kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart, which deploys the kubernetes-mixin, is designed for standard Kubernetes setups, often pre-configured for specific cloud environments. However, these configurations are not directly compatible with k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution. Since k3s lacks many of …

I’ve been running this blog for about five years, and during that time, it’s undergone several transformations. Initially, it was built with plain Markdown, HTML, and CSS. Over time, I experimented with various frameworks before finally settling on Tailwind CSS. …

OpenCost is an open-source tool designed to help you monitor and understand the cost of your cloud infrastructure. As a project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), OpenCost offers a transparent and powerful solution for cloud cost management. It …

I use Ansible to manage my entire OS setup, with a playbook that installs all necessary software, sets up my dotfiles, and configures my system. This playbook can be run on a fresh installation of my OS and have my …

The kubernetes-mixin is a popular resource for providing excellent dashboards and alerts for monitoring Kubernetes clusters. However, it lacks comprehensive support for autoscaling components such as Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB), Horizontal and Vertical Pod Autoscalers (HPA, VPA), Karpenter, and the …

Django channels are great for asynchronous views, but they can be a headache to test. This is due to the incompatibility with database transactions and all the side effects that the incompatibility produces. For example, the common pattern of rolling …

The Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) can manage both your pods' resource requests but also recommend what the limits and requests for a pod should be. Recently, the kube-state-metrics project removed built-in support for VPA recommendation metrics, which made the VPA …

Scrapy is a great web scraping framework, but it lacks a good logging setup. In this short blog post, I'll show you how to use Structlog with Scrapy.

Ingress-nginx provides an easy integration with Prometheus for monitoring. However, it can be challenging to get started with monitoring Ingress-nginx and creating dashboards and alerts. Therefore, I've created a monitoring mixin for Ingress-nginx which will provide Prometheus alerts and Grafana …

Django channels is great for adding support of various network protocols as WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols and other. It's a great way to add real-time functionality to your Django application. To use channels however, requires you to deploy an …