• How to update Node Selector field for Kubernetes PODs in real time

    So given the fact that we might want to use a really expensive node pool, you might need a GPU, you might need to use additional mememory and you've already deployed your deployments. Our recent case was to change a nginx ingress controller from a pre-emptible node (one that lives for less than 24 hours over to a stable node pool pool which has a much longer lifespan).
  • The Forever war - update

    Slow to start into this one but 40% of the way through it really picked up for me and finished it off in a few days.
  • Domain transfer woes

    So one of my domains, my main business domain vayu.com.au has been hosted with Crazy domains for the past number of years. I had been waiting for Route 53 to support AU domains and decided the week before it was due to expire was a good time to do so. Big mistake.
  • Books I want to read in July 2019

    The Forever War by Joe Halderman

  • Books I want to read in June 2019

    The Sparrow: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell So the synopsis I gave earlier in a previous blog post really doesn’t do this book justice. I really quite enjoyed aspects of this read, it wasn’t a slog by any means but there were points in the book where I had to do a double take, track back a chapter or two and realise that a single phrasing changed the entire storyline having missed it previously. Having been taught by a few Jesuits in my time and spent a lot of time around Jesuits I was quite interested in much of the scientific aspects of the Jesuit approach to faith. Definitely on my recommendation list.