The hardest part about GitOps
I will highlight some sections of The Path to GitOps by Christian Hernandez that I find to be the most overlooked in case to drill right into the content that will challenge your intuition....
Life as a Twitter refugee, a review of the Fediverse
I was recently inspired to take a break from Twitter after Elon Musk announced that he would be buying the company. I suppose I should talk a little bit about why that doesn't sit well with me, but I am more excited to recap my experience with the Fediverse as I sought to fill the Twitter void....
Quick Update on kiln: Bitcoin 'simnet' experimentation
There is a problem created by lack of competition in my own little Bitcoin world running on my laptop: it's too easy. If I let a node start mining, it will mine blocks at a ridiculous pace....
Incremental steps toward a self-contained Lightning Node testing environment
We need some block production in order to a) mature the blockchain to the necessary block height required unlock features, and b) support opening and closing Lightning channels. I've implemented the following features in the kiln operator to support block production in a test environment....
Connecting a Kubernetes Operator to Bitcoin Node Management APIs
The Bitcoin node implementation that I'm using (btcd) exposes an RPC API. For the past couple of days, I've been exploring that API and how I can integrate the kiln operator with with this RPC endpoint....