So I just packaged kube-review (by @anderseknert) for @opensuse #Tumbleweed. Will come in handy once I start playing with Admission controllers and #OPA and the likes soon-ish.
Has been submitted to devel:kubic and will be sent to Tumbleweed once accepted.
Been doing some Kubernetes API design today. It's thoughtful but not in quite the way other software design has felt.
I suppose the constraints make it easier to avoid some common mistakes. Spending quite a bit of effort though just wrangling GoLang types and kubebuilder annotations to try and get it how it ought to be.
Welcome #k8s "Octarine" v1.33
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/23/kubernetes-v1-33-release/
New Kubernetes Release
Kubernetes v1.33.0
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.33.0
Balancing speed and quality is crucial for software delivery.
I've used #containers and #k8s for years. Come join me on the journey to build a new tool to simplify both for all engineers.
@mshiltonj Umm, no. From 2024-08-13 to 2025-10-28 is a little over 14 months. Note the year.
Still fast, but not *that* fast.
Wow. A #k8s version goes from "release" to "end of life" in LESS THAN THREE MONTHS. What an upgrade and maintenance treadmill. #devops #kubernetes.
EDIT: FALSE ALARM. I WAS WRONG. It's a year and three months.
I'm always happy to delete a #k8s cluster.
Helm charts are great for managing applications but a massive pain to prep for initial deployment, am I doing this wrong?
With a new chart, I spend time reading through chart values and reading over the templates to see if certain features are supported by the chart or not. Reading go templates isn't exactly how I enjoy spending my time
When you create a chart, the default template supports a lot of standard features (overriding labels, setting TLS details for the ingress, securityContext, etc) which is fantastic... When I find a ready made chart on GitHub, I find that people have renamed some of these or stripped them out. I'm using NFS storage which means I think about process UID/GID a lot and typically create PVCs manually to be mounted in specific places which sometimes works great and sometimes not so much
I feel like I missed the boat with k8s-at-home which had an incredible collection of ready-made charts but it's a shame it's gone dark since 
Kubernetes has ruined me because I saw someone saying they were "playing eso" and I assumed they meant external secrets operator and was confused as to how you could "play" it.
When I actually get this cluster production-ready I'm going to be like a dog that's caught it's tail and doesn't know what to do with it.
OK, I found a way that seems to work in all phases:
- the migrations pod is not yet started (PodInitializing)
- the migrations pod is running
- the migrations pod has been Completed
This part waits for the pod to exist (no matter its state):
https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/gitlab_on_k3s_vagrant_libvirt_ansible/src/branch/main/ansible/playbook-gitlab_installation.yml#L170
This part waits for the pod to be in Completed state:
https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/gitlab_on_k3s_vagrant_libvirt_ansible/src/branch/main/ansible/playbook-gitlab_installation.yml#L184
I did not use the module's wait functionality as I could not get it to work the way I want. So I used what I often use: Ansble's `until` together with a `json_query` filter.
New Kubernetes Release Candidate Release
Kubernetes v1.33.0-rc.1
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.33.0-rc.1
So... I saw Aspire #dotnet demo first time last Friday, I am true tech adoption laggard :), but it was by brilliant Ratko Čosić and it was fab.
What I mostly liked is the dashboard UI, really cool. I also found out about #aspir8 tool to generate #k8s yamls, here is a nice blog on all of it: https://medium.com/@josephsims1/aspire-aspi8-deploy-microservices-effortlessly-with-cli-no-docker-or-yaml-needed-f30b58443107
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