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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I had to look up the releases for this one 😂. It must have been v1. I last used flux maybe 2+ years ago. That predates flux v2.

Have you used v2? If so, what do you think about it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh I could easily be wrong about forgo having integrated ci/cd already. It’s the only tool I mentioned shove that I have never used before. I’m not a good source on this one.

But I have used both flux and argo quite a lot. I’ll admit that it flux implementation was bad, but it was just a bad experience for everyone using it with me. It was a memory hog and often created. Very few people understood how to use it correctly. When there were errors with e.g. a helm template, you just had to go looking for issues and read through the log. It moved git tags around so you don’t get a history of what flux was doing. I could probably remember more issues if I tried.

But none of that was a problem with Argo. We just started using it successfully on day 1. Plus its UI is fantastic and a huge advantage. It’s easy to navigate, spot issues, troubleshoot, etc. It also exposes users to resources they unknowingly create because Argo displays owned resources. This part really helped people understand what was going on in k8s. Oh and argo is very extensible. Maybe flux is too but I haven’t tried.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They’re both good and quite similar on the surface. But I find that larger, more complicated uses tend to get messy with gitlab because of the heavy use of bash. However, actions are (always?) written in typescript. If your automation needs a lot of logic to handle varying uses, then it’s nice to avoid bash and code with a more language.

In other words, I’ve seen a few monstrosities that large companies build into gitlab and yikes!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope. I’m using a mobile app (voyager). No browsing history available

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I would have liked to but I can’t access the deleted post now. Does Lemmy provide a means of seeing deleted posts?

 

Someone posted a blog here a little while ago. I wrote up a big response only to find that OP deleted the post. I figured I might as well post my response here since it took me 45m to type out of my phone 🫠


What an interesting list. Some of these suggestions are good with others are not. I think we can reorder things a bit and make this more reasonable.

~~Jenkins~~

Jenkins is terrible! It should have been killed off a decade ago. Seriously, just don’t use Jenkins. There are much better offerings now.

Source control and CI/CD

The current trend is to rely on your source control provider for ci/cd. You may or may not have a choice in this space so let’s name some big ones. GitHub, Gitlab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Gitea/Forgejo. They all act as a git server and all offer automation. Learn whichever your company uses. If you get to choose… GitHub is great! Gitlab is also good but the automations will be focused on bash and tend to get messy IMO. ADO is truly a Microsoft product with many nonsensical choices. I find it frustrating to use. I haven’t done ci/cd with bitbucket. If you want a foss option, check out forgejo (a fork of gitea). I have not used either yet though it looks nice and I really want to.

Containers

Docker is a fine choice. I really like some alternatives tools like buildah, podman, etc. but nearly every piece of documentation out there is based on docker. The choice is yours here but docker will probably give you the simplest experience.

Kubernetes is an amazing runtime environment! IMO should be used as a standard interface for running resources in a public cloud. However, this is a huge jump and you’ll want to learn at least a dozen good tools here. This one is a many years long practice but absolutely worthwhile. A quick and very incomplete list of tools: k9s, k3d, helm, kustomize (better than helm in most cases), flux, Argo (better than flux), istio. Seriously these are just the basics.

Infrastructure Management

While ansible is good, I would be looking to retire it at this point. A big possible exception is if you are running your own hardware and don’t have a great interface for alternative tools. If somebody just gives you a VM to use, then ya use ansible.

Terraform is great but don’t use it. OpenTofu is a foss fork and people should honestly just use this instead. But both tools have some limitations and oddities. People seem to love using terragrunt as well to make this easier to use.

If you’re using k8s, there’s also the open tofu controller. I’ve haven’t personally used it, but people I 100% trust in this space absolutely love it.

Observability

Firstly I like the numeronym instead: o11y.

Don’t use nagios. It’s old and there are better alternatives.

Elasticsearch is ok but I don’t really like it. Everything is stored as a document and just… eh, there are better options.

Prometheus is quite good.

Here’s the biggest mistake that people make today. Use OpenTelemetry as the core of your o11y solution. It’s the 2nd biggest CNCF project (right behind k8s) and it’s a fantastic tool. It lets you collect telemetry data and build data pipelines to whatever storage devices you want. That includes Prometheus and elasticsearch but you also can choose many more options as well with only tiny configuration changes.

ChatGPT

This entire post looks 100% like a copy/paste from ChatGPT. AI is a cool tool but OP, you should learn to use it a little better. Tell it to not use so much fluff text or such a rigid structure. Make edits afterwards. And most important of all, make sure it’s actually providing good info.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I recently moved away from Bitwarden to proton pass. I really only moved because I was already paying for proton unlimited for other services. That said, it’s been great. Does everything I need it to quite well on IOS and as a browser extension on Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I didn’t see that one

 

Ever since the database maintenance two Weiss so, I’ve seen far less content in my home feed. I decided to dig a bit today and found that I’m just not seeing content from certain subscribed communities such as [email protected]. Turns out the most recent content from there is 15 days old. That lines up perfectly with the db maintenance.

Sooo. Are there any known issues since then? Maybe something with federation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I use proton vpn and Firefox Focus on iOS. I’m not sure which of them is doing the heavy lifting, but I rarely see ads on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I was having some issues today as well. My client (Voyager) was acting like I’m subscribed to zero communities. I had to log out and back in to fix things. Given the timing, I bet it’s related.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe try it out on standard Firefox as a quick test? While annoying, this would help validate that the issue is with the librewolf changes to standard Firefox.

Also note that I also use both proton mail and drive from librewolf. Even today. If it’s a general issue with this setup, it hasn’t hit my machine (yet)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Markdown is my preference. It’s certainly not perfect for formatting. But it’s fantastically simple because it’s barely more than plain text. And it’ll usually look good in the end

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you'd like to learn more about Haptic, why it's being built, what its goals are and how it differs from all the other markdown editors out there, you can read more about it here.

As others have noted, the app doesn’t work on mobile yet. Anybody willing to share the content here for mobile users?

 

I made some changes to disk partitions. Now I'm seeing an issue with mounts. It's not a big problem but it's definitely confusing me.

[alex@rog-g15dk dev]$ sudo mount /home-temp
mount: /home-temp: can't find in /etc/fstab.
[alex@rog-g15dk dev]$ cat /etc/fstab
New                                         Partition    /home-temp   defaults            0 0 # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#                      
UUID=5E74-A00E                              /efi         vfat         noatime             0 2 
UUID=53a2c9bc-31dd-4e52-902f-633867253481   /            ext4         noatime             0 1 
tmpfs                                       /tmp         tmpfs        noatime,mode=1777   0 0 
/dev/nvme0n1p2                              /home        ext4         noatime             0 2 
/dev/nvme0n1p3                              /steam       ext4         noatime             0 2

Can anyone explain what 'mount -a' is trying to mount?

Here's the context on the changes I made. My desktop used to run windows. I recently installed linux as well (dual boot). A bit later I destroyed the windows partitions. This left the beginning 2/3 of the disk unused.

Today I decided to reclaim that disk space. I created 2 new partitions, copied some data to them, updated fstab accordingly, rebooted, and grew the steam partition to 700GiB. That process had a couple of small bumps, including a partition that was mounted to '/home-temp'. I destroyed that partition before using it all.

So this error is definitely caused by me. That's fine. I'm just trying to understand what's going on and how to clean up the little mess.

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