Back again and this time is was only nine days between! Feeling good about the little wins.

The major headline for my week was the resignation of GitHub CEO Auf Wiedersehen and what it means for its role within the Microsoft CoreAI department.

Pessimism over this is at an all-time high on Reddit and is somewhat reminiscient of the vibes of when GitHub was first sold.

What this really means, I honestly don't know... but seeing it meld into it's next form as part of the Microsoft CoreAI organization feels like a indirect confirmation on the business direction of GitHub and another turning point in its history.

Not many to cover in addition to above from me. I'm deep in work mode at the moment!

Right now I'm powering through the setup of my homelab and trying to offload as many projects as I can onto it.

As some preparation, I've also been doing some research across a few technologies to tie it altogether. What I've explored in no particular order...

On the container/orchestration front, I looked into the following three technologies:

I ended up opting for Kubernetes setup for a few reasons.

Although Nomad looked great and Docker Swarm seemed familiar enough to pivot to, I hadn't used either and didn't want to spend too long getting started on things.

I also had a few issues around configuring Nomad jobs which felt more like a skill issue than a critique. Very understandably Kubernetes for a homelab can seem like overkill, but I really adore using k9s and alongside cdk8s, I think it makes the configuration manageable enough for me without too much overhead and it's also a nice opportunity to keep working with tools at home that I use day-to-day.

In addition to this, I also wanted to figure out a service mesh and opted for Linkerd over Istio. This is my first chance to use Linkerd but it looks simple enough to work with.

To bring it altogether, I ended up opting to use k3s which is a "lightweight Kubernetes" but (maybe confusingly) I am running this through k3d on Docker so that I can make use of the homelab stack on MacOS as well when developing on the laptop. I'm aiming to write up a series on using this approach for the homelab given that I think it is considered a little unorthodox. I might need to alter this approach once I checkout native MacOS containers and when setting up IoT devices.

At work, I'm currently helping explore migration options for Auth0 and opted to pick up OAuth 2 in Action as a primer/recap reference for all the various auth mechanisms that I need to be on top of related to migrating any services that rely on resource owner approach tokens that need migrating.

See ya! 👋

(Also, go Wallabies!)