The kegerator has a new gas line and we’re ready to get started installing some sensors. The goal with these sensors is to keep track of how much seltzer I’ve got left and how long it takes the fridge to cool down kegs that have been refilled with room-temperature water. …

I was recently gifted a dual pressure gas regulator, so it’s time to upgrade my kegerator. For this project, I have a pair of upgrades in mind: Add a second gas line to make use of the new regulator Install some sensors to monitor how much liquid is left in…

First, some introduction Pihole is a self-hosted DNS server and filter for blocking ad domains. I run pihole on my network and have found it to be great fodder for testing devops / SRE concepts. Previously, I took a stab at running pihole on kubernetes. Since then, I’ve started running prometheus and grafana…

If your development process is anything like mine, you tend to make lots of changes and worry about organizing the commits afterwards. This can lead to some frustration in separating the changes into neat, logical increments. Add changes by patch Adding changes with the --patch flag makes telling a clear commit “story” easy. For…

If you’ve never heard of pi-hole, it’s fantastic tool that blocks DNS requests to ad servers. That means you can surf the web without having to look at ads on every page. I’m a big fan of running absolutely everything in docker, so I previously had a pi-hole container on…

If you have a few raspberry pis lying around and you’re looking for an interesting way to get started with kubernetes, this is the tutorial for you! Below, I’ve outlined a fairly straight forward method for getting a stripped down install of kubernetes (k3s) installed across a pair of raspberry…

As a developer, product management can be an entirely alien craft. It can seem like either a valueless function or it can seem like glue holding the whole operation together. Oftentimes, it’s somewhere in the middle and is heavily influenced by how your product manager fulfills their role. …