Unexpected behavior of TUN devices in Kubernetes >= 1.31.3 Members Public

Sometimes, security improvements in one project can cause problems in places nobody ever expected. In this case, we had to deal with one of these improvements.

Felix Zimmermann
Kubernetes

mysql - online index creation Members Public

This post shows how easy it is to alter tables (in this example index creation) online to keep your sql database uninterrupted and clients online.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Database

Ansible - pretty print output Members Public

Sometimes you want to print more or extensive information on ansible output (in this case a terraform plan). This can easily be realised using an stdout callback.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
IaC

Object attribute defaults on terraform - hello simplicity Members Public

Using terraform's object attributes defaults empowers you to create complex input values that still apply default values on a highly granular level. This post shows an example how to use this.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
IaC

Configurable default values on terraform objects Members Public

Creating complex configurations requires many dimensions on the input - this post shows how to take care of default values in such a case to offer users of your code fine grained control without enforcing too much input if not required.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Terraform

Terraform - applying complex default values Members Public

This post explores handling default values in Terraform. It shows merging default values with instance-specific values, using both native merge and the deepmerge module for recursive merging of nested objects. This approach ensures compact, maintainable code and seamless use of default values.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Cloud

Ollama fails to utilize GPU after driver update (NVIDIA) Members Public

Ollama can't make use of NVIDIA GPUs when using latest drivers - fix is easy: Downgrade and wait for the next release. :-)

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
AI

Kubernetes, blockDevices & denied permissions Members Public

Mounting (block)devices on containers might result in permission errors (Permission denied) if pods have applied a securityContext. It's possible to configure this on containerd and get both of best worlds - fast device access and reduced permissions on containers.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Container