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Founder @openfaas, @inletsdev & @selfactuated
Mar 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Is there a Pull Through registry cache that *is not* designed to only work with the Docker Hub? I.e. to cache public ECR/GCHR/GCR images? It seems like Habor supports mirroring from other registries, however it's not exactly lightweight

goharbor.io/docs/2.3.0/adm…
Oct 27, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
But will it Linux? Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 ARM64 ImageImageImage As suspected, the M1 would have been a lot faster - but with less RAM and double the cost. Image
Sep 24, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
GitHub Actions Managed/Hosted runners are great most of the time and super convenient

but also:

- limited on CPU/RAM
- slower than your own hardware or cloud provider
- limited to Intel runners
- limited on concurrent jobs
- and those e2e tests are making you miserable

So.. You think self-hosted runners might be the solution? You add a VM and

It takes you a day to install all the packages
You get conflicts between dirty state from prior builds
You schedule too few or too many builds and crash the server

You've created a "pet" server 😣
Apr 5, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Check out my new netbooting workshop for @Raspberry_Pi

"This had been something I wanted to do but finding all the resources in one place was driving me crazy, your workshop came at just the right time. Thanks for such a great tutorial!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

gum.co/netbooting-ras… Image My wife: are you "doing networking"?
Me: Yes.. 🤔
Her: 💪 Yes! I was right!
Me: How did you know? 🤔
Her: There's cables everywhere
Jul 7, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
I had a long conversation with an old colleague today who founded a fast-growing SaaS product - 200k+ customers and he's running it all on a single @DigitalOcean Droplet with "Dokku" (Docker triggered by GitHub)

I am also not sure if the answer is Kubernetes 🙀

1/
To begin with I was concerned about whether it would A) scale with demand and B) handle the loss of a node

A) was is easier for him, he bumped up to 16 vCPU after a recent slow-down
B) this is a concern and my gut reaction is Kubernetes

2/
Apr 14, 2020 5 tweets 6 min read
I'm spending some time getting familiar with bare-metal provisioning projects. What's your favourite, and why? #baremetal #provisioning #oss #devops #itoperations #hybridcloud #privatecloud #onprem #pxe #firmware I'm thinking that @dave_universetf, @mccabejohn, @Codydearkland, @vielmetti, @thebsdbox, @robbiej, @SFoskett, and @andrew_randall might have some suggestions.