On the 23rd and 24th of February the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) were organised by the Dutch Kubernetes meetup group backup by the CNCF. The first KCD of its kind was organised in 2019 in the Netherlands. Nowadays it is an CNCF supported event organised by the local community in a country. There are KCD events …

Short update: I'm happy to announce that I have been admitted to the Calico Big Cats Ambassador program. Thanks to Tigera, Chris Tomkins and Project Calico. In the last months I have been busy with gettting my Calico certifications. At the moment I have the Calico Certified Operator:Level 1 and Calico Certified …

I started 2021 with a focus on Microsoft Azure and also passed two exams which I also mention in earlier posts. In August I changed jobs. At my current employer there is more a focus on AWS as a cloud provider. Unfortunately my AWS certification had expired, so I had to start over again. My goal for 2021 was to pass at …

Last year I passed my az-104 certification and at that moment I thought I would first focus on achieving az-400. At the beginning of this year I decided that it was smarter to first pass the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification. Reason for that was that I already took the class last year …

Today I passed my first Azure exam for this year, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. My goal is to achieve two other certificates in the coming two months, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. For the first certification this is one of …

This is the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Virtual. Originally this event was planned for the end of March/ beginning of April in Amsterdam. I was really looking forward to it because Amsterdam is very near where I live. Because of covid-19 is wast decided to postpone the event and finally they made it a …

If you want to try out Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on your VMware environment, you can use the Demo Appliance for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid from William Lam. Version 1.1.3 just has been released. This is a Virtual Appliance that pre-bundles all required dependencies to help customers in learning and deploying standalone Tanzu …

Last week I completed Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1. I already had some experience with the products of Rancher Labs. I wrote some posts about the K3S product and I have implemented a Rancher based solution at a customer. Next to that I was part of team tht build a Rancher based platform to host different teams …

In 2015 I started with a personal blog which was called Mindmelt.nl. This blog was based on Wordpress and up until now my blog was running there.Last year I talked with some colleagues about which platform they were using and some of them mentioned Hugo. I really like Hugo and also the fact that when you can check your …

The engineers from VMware created a new cool fling, Kubewise. If you want to get in contact with the engineers who created it or download it, go to https://flings.vmware.com/kubewise. You can run this tool on Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Apple Macbook. Summary Kubewise is a simple multi-platform desktop client for …

If you install k3s with the default settings it also installs Traefik as a load balancer. Traefik also offers a dashboard which is very easy to enable. If you go on your k3s machines to the path /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests you can find their traefik.yaml. To enable the Traefik dashboard you have to add …

Today I got the email from Google saying that I passed the Google Cloud Associate Engineer certification. Last Friday I took the exam at a Kryterion test center and got the pass score but had to wait till the final approval from Google. At my current job I don't work with Google Cloud but more with Microsoft Azure, AWS …

A month or so ago I started with building a homelab for running Kubernetes. I choose Raspberry Pi's to run my workloads on. I started with the use of kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes and chose the blog of Alex Ellis as my starting point. I ran into some problems in my attempts to get it working but finally I succeeded to …

As I already explained in my earlier post, this was my first KubeCon | CloudNativeCon that I attended. What I liked about KubeCon was the diversity in sessions and that it was often a difficult choice per time slot which session to attend. For me this congress was next to attending sessions also about networking with …

This year I'm going to KubeCon | CloudNativeCon which is held in Barcelona from Monday, May 20, 2019 - Thursday, May 23. This is my first KubeCon and I'm really looking forward to the sessions and the meetings I have scheduled Here is list of tips which kind of apply to every conference I have attended. Wear …