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This week's Insiders' email is out - including the slides and links from my Firecracker deep dive on Friday.
I also explore how technology becomes product giving examples, and asking "what's next"?
Check your email, or grab this edition in the portal: insiders.alexellis.io
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Weekend plans? Have you got a single Raspberry Pi 3, 4, or Zero W 2 hanging around?
Build a private, pocket-sized cloud with this walk-through with and
#homelab #pocketcloud #devops #rest #githubactions
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I bought this chunk of Oak to slice into mobile phone caddies, to prop up your phone at your desk. The coaster blanks are ready for your custom logo to be etched onto them
store.openfaas.com/l/openfaas-coa
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Just like "git init" starts off a new project with unlimited potential, this board of Oak could be
a traditional staked stool, a coffee pour over station, a set of premium coasters, or a couple of branded wrist rests.. 🪚
store.openfaas.com
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Yeah, super happy to received my #growlab price from and ! All what I needed to move my growlab to next level 😜
Join us 👉 github.com/alexellis/grow
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Already experimented with firecracker a bit before the livestream .
Ran some OpenFaaS functions in a microVM.
Learned a lot 😀
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Missed the start, but it is a fun learning session, lots to learn
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A create live sessions from and
This would crack/&bootstrap your weekend :-)
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If you're curious about how microVMs fit in with containers and how they're different to legacy VMs, I'll be exploring this with @fruit_case from @weaveworks on Friday 12pm BST
Plus: live demos of what we've made and a lab you can play with today.
youtu.be/CYCsa5e2vqg
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Revisiting Firecracker on stream after I first used it as part of ignite back in 2019!
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Ignite Combines Firecracker MicroVMs with Docker images and here is my version of #ignite on Google Cloud: link.medium.com/t92GqsfniY
Official repo on github - weaveworks/ignite
#weaveworks #docker #google #cloud #mondaylearninga #fun #Firecracker #microvm
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And we are live in 5 minutes!
Firecracker use-cases, deep dive and demos
youtube.com/watch?v=CYCsa5
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Getting the day started with some final tuning of my demos and slides for the 90 minute deep dive into Firecracker vs VMs vs Containers with of
Covering: concepts, comparisons, use-cases and demos
See you at lunch time! 12pm BST
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Friday (tomorrow) lunchtime in Europe, morning coffee time in EST.
See you there. We're both looking forward to your questions and suggestions 🙂
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Friday 8th April - join @fruit_case and @alexellisuk and have a cracking time discovering Firecracker and Micro VMs. Don't miss out - subscribe below
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Here's how to install an NVMe as a boot drive for the
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I bought some special kit for tomorrow's demo with Firecracker - 8GB RPi, 500GB Samsung NVMe, 64GB SD Card and USB-C caddy.
It's running Ubuntu 20.04 (aarch64)
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Replying to
I don’t know anyone who has gotten away with this full time, has written about his experience in self publishing which I think is the only way to do this based on how much % publishers will take away
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And here's one for firecracker via
We still have half a dozen more that need contributing and testing. PRs welcome, happy to provide guidance.
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Here's a few screenshots of the new dashboard in action - on a live faasd server where we also run for various OSS projects and the Treasure Trove portal
If you'd like to try it out with your own faasd instance, let me know.
docs.openfaas.com/openfaas-pro/d
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Show HN: Firecracker Lab – Build a microVM from a container image github.com/alexellis/fire (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309242)
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"why we're so excited about #firecracker, what use-cases we see"
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Live-event - A cracking time with Richard Case of Weaveworks
April 8th
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The first example was an adaptation of arkade and took a bit longer. The second one for hey took a few minutes.
Feel free to fork and adapt as necessary for things you need.
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you still use hey, right? how about yourself?
Next job is to get the new hey binary added to #arkade for easy multi-arch / multi-OS downloads
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GitHub Actions makes it trivial to build and publish release binaries things you need - especially where they do not yet exist upstream (for whatever reason)
Here's two examples - one for hey, and one for a part of firecracker
github.com/alexellis/tc-t
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✏️ A primer from on #Kubernetes services, #Ingress, Node Ports, port forwarding, tunnels and LoadBalancers
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Included as part of your inlets subscription, you now get access to a new Kubernetes operator and CLI to create and manage tunnel servers instantly.
Check it out 👇
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I did it, And i can accept it publicly. I tried writing controllers where we don't even need a k8s controller, It's like adding complexity in our stack.
Thanks to few mentors who correct me again and again, And now i want to write controller without k8s 😂
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This can be so bad, that even when K8s isn't the right technology for a solution, they'll demand it anyway.
On the other side, where a single-node K3s cluster simplifies operating something immensely, K8s-agnostics will not even consider it.
What have we done? 
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Here's a quick lab that takes you a little further than the quickstart, by adding networking and your own init process written in
Have fun!
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If you're curious about how microVMs fit in with containers and how they're different to legacy VMs, I'll be exploring this with from on Friday 12pm BST
Plus: live demos of what we've made and a lab you can play with today.
youtu.be/CYCsa5e2vqg
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On this week's office hours call, we'll be joined by from the project to discuss metrics for functions.
Register with Zoom, and attend any week that you're free or want to connect with us.
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Here's the first arkade system package, which installs . As we get more apps submitted - I imagine a kind of SDK / fluent API might be extracted.
github.com/alexellis/arka
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New #arkade Feature proposal: system packages for Linux servers, CI and workstations
How many times per week do you script or curl | tar -C things like Go, Node, containerd etc?
#oss #packagemanagement #devops #sysadmin
github.com/alexellis/arka
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This can be so bad, that even when K8s isn't the right technology for a solution, they'll demand it anyway.
On the other side, where a single-node K3s cluster simplifies operating something immensely, K8s-agnostics will not even consider it.
What have we done? 🙃
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