Kubernetes and Clouds and much more (What I find interesting in tech, July 2022)

Since April, here are a ton of links I found useful while doing my work. Lots of good stuff on Kubernetes and Cloud (both IBM’s and AWS’s); some cool hardware links; some worthwhile software links. Plus other things! Check it out.

Kubernetes: plenty of good things here to explore if you are doing things with Kubernetes like I was:

• On  Scalable Kubernetes on IBM cloud 
• If you need to  Architect microservices on Kubernetes .
• A good tutorial:  docker deploy a simple hello world html website – 4Beginner.com .
• Ingress is not obvious. This can help  Kubernetes: Ingress Overview. What is Ingress?
• Running Kubernetes and the dashboard with Docker Desktop – useful if you are using Docker’s Kubernetes
• How-To: Running HA IBM DB2 on Kubernetes – Archive of the IBM Cloud Blog .
• Old but fun:  Archived | Running Minecraft servers within Docker – IBM Developer .
• Set up a simple apache web server in a Docker container. Good for people starting out with Docker
• Good stuff on security .
• More good stuff:  Storage Classes | Kubernetes .
• Helpful:  A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments 
• Getting Started with Kubernetes: A kubectl Cheat Sheet | DigitalOcean .
• docker deploy a simple hello world html website – 4Beginner.com .
• How To Set Up an Elasticsearch Fluentd and Kibana (EFK) Logging Stack on Kubernetes .

Terraform: Relatedly, I was doing work with Terraform and these were useful:

• How To Build a Custom Terraform Module | DigitalOcean. The folks at DigitalOcean write good tutorials.
• More terraform stuff:  terraform-ibm-modules .
• Still more terraform:  Getting Started with Terraform .
• Also terraform-ibm-modules .

IBM Cloud: one of the two clouds I have been working with. Alot of the work was Kubernetes on IBM Cloud so you’ll see some overlap:

• Getting started with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. IBM also does good tutorial.
• Here’s a good  FAQs on IBM Cloud
• Niche:  Upgrading from logging agent version 2 to logging agent version 3
• Helpful  Getting started with Container Registry | IBM Cloud Docs .
• A good repo .
• Create an External Load Balancer with  Kubernetes .
• Some good repos here  Lab Overview and  here: ibm_cos_bucket | Resources | IBM-Cloud/ibm | Terraform Registry
• Using Portworx to Deploy and Manage an HA MySQL Cluster on IBM Cloud Kubernetes.
• How to Use the Ingress Application Load Balancer to Expose an App Outside.
• Kubernetes Persistent Volumes Backed by IBM Cloud Object Storage Buckets.
• Fun:  Build a database driven chatbot .
• Less fun but useful:  Introduction to Backup and Disaster Recovery | IBM .
• Set up your ELK stack .
• Good stuff on LogDNA .

AWS: I work on alot of cloud providers. Mostly IBM Cloud but others like AWS

• How to Build a Serverless Web Application with AWS Lambda. Non trivial. That can help.
• How to do  AWS API Development.Also How to build an api in aws.
• A good reference:  Summary of DynamoDB QUERY parameters for AWS Lambda function | One Hardware . More:Querying for  DynamoDB explained.
• AWS architecture:  Draw AWS diagrams and Architecting for resiliency .

Software: some of these were work related, but some are more hobby oriented.

• How to pass JSON array in ajax JQuery with example .
• Some cool python samples .
• How to embed a live Google Docs spreadsheet into a webpage | BDNYC Also  How To: Embed an editable Google Docs Sheet – Google Apps – Spiceworks .
• How to build a stopwatch with HTML CSS and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
• Programatically – Learn something new everyday!
• git – how to delete all commit history in github? – Stack Overflow .
• How to build dashboard with Bootstrap tutorial .
• How to Embed a Google Sheet in a Website .
• 61 Random APIs (2022) | ProgrammableWeb .
• Agile and the Long Crisis of Software .

Hardware: the pickings are few here

• Cool hardware from Lenovo .
• The IoT is a weird place:  Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down Users Left Smart-Home-Less | Hackaday .

Finally: here are an odd assortment of things worthwhile:

• Here’s some pieces on payments: How Apple Pay works under the hood? | by Prashant Ram | codeburst, this: Interac creates ‘open’ mobile debit payment solution called Interac TSP, this: What You Need to Know About Payment Tokenization, this: Pay By Bank App: Is 2022 the year for the new payment solution to shine? and this  Pay Someone – Home Federal Bank of Tennessee
• For those interested:  How to move from Heroku to Render .
• Likewise:  How To Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa | DigitalOcean 
• Great example of how to do RCA here:  Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2 2019 .
• Fun:  Give your Mac a vintage 1984 them. Cool .
• On what is happening with  Apple and old apps .
• Useful guide for BAs and Archs:  Cheat Sheet – Calculate compound availability. Related: System Management by Exception: How to Calculate Availability of Clustered .
•  Can algorithms speak? And should their opinions be protected? No and No.
• The best Google Font combinations to try .
• When Microsoft was King and unleashed Hailstorm. Know your history, kids.
• Bad:  Best Employee Monitoring Software 2022 | TechRepublic .
• Helpful:  Good piece on IBM Certification .
• Also helpful  RSS Feeds – The New York Times .
• Crunch time at Google: they are now going to charge for Gsuite. Good luck with that.
• Last and least, this ding dong:  How Elon Musk Winged It With Twitter and Everything Else