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Low-Fi: Quantitative Easing 101

Low-Fi: Quantitative Easing 101

Today, I'm focusing on a non-technical article (Low-Fi series) to explain how Quantitative Easing works in a simple and easy to understand way. This is a bit selfish of me, as I have had to explain this to a lot of friends over the past few weeks, so I thought I'd just write a blog post.

Preventing Bad Commit Messages with Git Hooks

Preventing Bad Commit Messages with Git Hooks

I always forget to write good git commit messages, it's just not something I've ever been able to prioritise in my mind. Today I setup a tool that will forcibly stop me from doing that: a git message hook.

Open Letter: ICANN .COM Price Increases

Open Letter: ICANN .COM Price Increases

This letter was submitted to ICANN in response to their proposal to allow Verisign to significantly increase the wholesale cost of purchasing a .COM domain name.

Handy Ops Tools (2020 Edition)

Handy Ops Tools (2020 Edition)

I've been working in Operations for about 10 years now. In that time I've worked in big corporate, small business, and all sizes of Government, and I've come across a lot of tools. I thought I'd share some of the tools I use on a daily basis that are free and do their jobs excellently.

Let's Embark! Kubernetes Secrets and AWS SSM (Part 4)

Let's Embark! Kubernetes Secrets and AWS SSM (Part 4)

Here we have a simple solution that can be used to inject secrets into your Kubernetes Clusters with minimal effort, when you do not have strict security requirements for your workloads.

Let's Embark! Securing our Ingress with Let's Encrypt (Part 3)

Let's Embark! Securing our Ingress with Let's Encrypt (Part 3)

Time to secure our cluster to ensure our traffic can't be snooped on by any baddies. In part 3, we use JetStack's `cert-manager` to automatically provision certificates and secure communication between the user and our `nginx-ingress` pods.

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Automatically Building Container Images using Docker Hub

Docker Hub isn't as cool as it was, but it can still be very handy as part of your CI/CD pipelines. Let's walk through setting up automated builds of our images using Docker Hub and GitHub.