Drinking the Kubernetes Kool-Aid
Kubernetes solves a lot of problems, but things aren’t always as Kubernet-easy as they seem.


Living the Pipe Dream
Generating and using Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificates with cert‑manager
Wildcard certificates are amazingly easy to set up and manage with cert-manager. I don’t know how I managed without them for so long.

The Toilet Paper
Helm may be a popular solution, but not necessarily a safe one
Helm charts are re-usable packages for Kubernetes resources. They are easy to share and use, but this comes at a price.

The Toilet Paper
Migrating pods between Kubernetes nodes (without killing them)
When you move a pod to another node, Kubernetes creates a new pod and kills the original. Is there a more humane way?

Living the Pipe Dream
How (not) to install WordPress on Kubernetes
Today we’re dragging LAMP into the 21st century in the worst possible way.

Living the Pipe Dream
Deploying apps on OpenShift: a stupid comparison between PHP, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and GraalVM
Spoiler alert: they’re not the same.