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Continue reading →: Shell Shortcut Commands (Linux)This blog post is to help me remember shell shortcut commands. The post will be edited as I remember or find new shortcuts that are useful to me. Command Action CTRL A Jump to beginning of line CTRL E Jump to end of line CTRL F Move cursor forward one…
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Continue reading →: VUCA Environment (DevOps)
What is a VUCA environment? There are many different types of project management because there are many different types of environment a project could be happening within. One of these types of environments is VUCA, which is the environment of constant, unpredictable changes and challenges. What does VUCA stand for?…
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Continue reading →: Liveness Checks (Kubernetes)
Kubernetes can use a function called a livenessProbe to help identify unhealthy pods or pods that are having issues. The below livenessProbe uses a httpGet to check for response codes between 200 and 400. The probe waits 3 seconds (initialDelaySeconds) before starting. The probe checks for a response every 3…
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Continue reading →: AI: Wooldridge, Fry, and Stuart (Artificial Intelligence)
This week has seen several YouTube videos on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that caught my attention and, more importantly, managed to keep it. So I thought I would try something a little different and do a blog post sharing the videos and my key take away from each one. This is…
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Continue reading →: Kubernetes Pods – Requests and Limits (Kubernetes)
In previous Kubernetes based posts I have created a deployment of replicas, a load balancer service and demonstrated how to test that traffic flows to different pods. But what if I wanted to control how much resource a deployment should use? Resources: Requests and Limits Kubernetes has an resources option…
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Continue reading →: Testing Kubernetes Load Balancer via Replicas (Kubernetes)
I previously blogged about deploying a replica set of nginx in Kubernetes, with the same static web pages shared from storage. I then did a post about using a load balancer such as Metallb in Kubernetes, with pods available externally via the load balancer. But how about mixing the two…
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Continue reading →: Free AI Training (Artificial Intelligence)
On Wednesday 28th January 2026 the UK government announced it’s ambition to boost the AI skills of the UK with the AI Skills Hub (https://aiskillshub.org.uk). The AI Skills Hub has the ambition to up skill 10 million UK workers by offering free training. Yes, free. And regular readers will know…
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Continue reading →: Load Balancer (Kubernetes)
In a previous blog post (K3s Cluster) I wrote how my K3s Cluster sat and waited for an external IP address and never got one. There are solutions for this when running a K3s Cluster, or running a Kubernetes via MicroK8s. MetalLB MetalLB is a load balancer for use in…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye 3G (A UK Perspective)
It’s the early 2000s. Voice calls and text messages (SMS) make up the major reason a phone contract is chosen, with mobile phones being mainly that – a mobile version of a phone. But coming around the corner is a potential game changer in the 3rd generation of mobile networks, 3G. …
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Continue reading →: TCP/IP ModelIn this blog post the TCP/IP Model is looked at to give an overview of how it operates and how data moves through it. Examples are given of each layer of the TCP/IP Model. TCP/IP Model The TCP/IP model is made up of layers: Application Transport Internet Link Data is…
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