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The Best Way to Host Static Content on Kubernetes?

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:38:12 +0100

Static websites have always been simple to deploy - until you try to do it “the Kubernetes way.” Traditional approaches involve init containers copying files, persistent volumes, or baking content into web server images. Each has drawbacks: complexity, storage dependencies, or rebuilding entire server images for content changes.

Uses

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The /uses page is a convention for designers and developers to share what they use to get work done. You can find a collection of these at uses.tech.

Hardware

I’m currently using a Framework Laptop 13 with AMD processor, 32GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe storage. My phone is an iPhone 14 Pro. My screen is a Dell UltraSharp 40" (U4025QW). I use a Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (UHK-60) and a Logitech Vertical Mouse

Removed cloud-controller flag during Talos Kubernetes upgrade to v1.33.x

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:35:21 +0100

This first appeared on autops.eu

When updating the Kubernetes version of a Talos cluster from version 1.32.x -> 1.33.0 I ran into the following situation where the install would stop.

$ talosctl --nodes <<talos node>> upgrade-k8s --to 1.33.0
automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.32.0
discovered controlplane nodes ["10.0.0.3"]
discovered worker nodes ["10.0.0.4" "10.0.0.2"]
checking for removed Kubernetes component flags
checking for removed Kubernetes API resource versions

NODE COMPONENT REMOVED FLAG
10.0.0.3 kube-apiserver cloud-provider
10.0.0.3 kube-controller-manager cloud-provider

Kubernetes v1.33 removes the --cloud-provider flag from core components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager). If you’re using an external cloud controller manager (CCM), you need to remove this flag from your configuration before upgrading. Your CCM will continue to work - it doesn’t depend on these flags anymore.

Hosting Hugo website on Scaleway with Cloudflare

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0100

As I’m using Scaleway more and more for my Cloud hosting needs I wanted to move my personal blog which I hosted on AWS (S3/Cloudfront) to Scaleway. Since there is no CDN alternative on Scaleway (yet) I needed an other alternative and choose Cloudflare as they have a generous free tier and are being used by some bigger companies which means they have mature infrastructure and services

Deploy a Multi Region Serverless Golang App with CDK

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:07:58 +0200

In this example we will show how you can deploy a serverless application written in Golang and deploy it in multiple regions using the AWS CDK with Python as the configuration language.

AWS Lambda Monitoring part I: Improved logging (Python)

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:00:08 +0100

As serverless is being used more and more to build ‘real’ applications and not only used to execute small tasks, the need for monitoring becomes even more important. However, when using a serverless architecture most of the tools and practices we used when working with servers and containers are not applicable anymore.

Consolidate your NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway and save some money

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 04:46:31 +0000

At ReInvent of 2018 AWS announced Transit Gateway. Transit Gateway is a managed service that allows you to connect multiple VPC’s from different accounts and on-prem connections through a single endpoint.

Keep your Lambda layers up to date with AWS CodeBuild

Sun, 19 May 2019 08:59:31 +0000

For some time now it is possible to add Layers to a Lambda function which allows you to use additional libraries and dependencies in your functions without the need to include these in your deployment pacakge. This is for instance very convenient when using Cloudformation to manage your Lambda functions. In most cases this means you can simply point to a single file instead of creating a deployment package each time.

Elastic Beanstalk with 'native' HTTPS redirection on ALB

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 14:09:44 +0100

If you search the internet on how to redirect http to https for Elastic Beanstalk you often find information on how to configure the accompanied webserver provided by the Elastic Beanstalk platform

Hosting Hugo static website on AWS for fun and profit (Part 1)

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:20:00 +0100

For some time now I wanted to start blogging again for several reasons. One of them is that I frequently build interesting things on AWS, discover a new open source tool or just experiment with technology and never really keep some kind of documentation for later reference.

Deploy Kubernetes with ansible on Atomic

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:20:00 +0100

Intro

I’ve been playing with Project Atomic as a platform to run Docker containers for some time now. The reason that I like Project Atomic is something for another blogpost. But one of the reasons is that while it’s a minimal OS, it comes with Python so I can use Ansible to do orchestration and configuration management.

A critical view on Docker

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR Before you start reading this, I want to make it clear that I absolutely don’t hate Docker or the application container idea in general, at all!. I really see containers become a new way of doing things in addition to the existing technologies. In fact, I use containers myself more and more.

Ansible and Opennebula

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Recently we decided to deploy a private cloud to replace our RHEV setup. The reasoning behind this will be covered in an other blog post, but the main reason was the higher level of automation we could achieve with Opennebula compared to RHEV. In this post I would like to talk about how we used Ansible to help us with the setup of Opennebula and what we are going to do in the near future.

Backup Zarafa with Bacula

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I finished migrating our mail/collaboration platform to Zarafa, and as with all things this needs to be backed up. We’re running the Zarafa Enterprise edition which come’s with a backup tool called zarafa-backup which works like this :

Detect MTU size when using Jumbo Frames

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I’ve setup an iSCSI target based on RHEL6 + tgt. After adding Logical Volumes to a target in the tgtd config file, the iSCSI target was discoverable and ready for use.

RHEV setup

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This blog post comes a little late because I did this RHEV setup at our company more than 6 months ago and it has been living in the drafts folder for some time now. Now with RHEV 3.0 Beta released I tought it’s time to publish this.

Switched to Jekyll

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a while since I last blogged about a “decent” topic and actually it’s been a while blogging about anything. The reason is the lack of time and also some lazyness. But that should change now, and the first step I took was migrating my blog from Drupal to a Jekyll generated website. Not that Drupal is bad or anything, but it’s quite overkill and somehow felt not really productive while creating content.

I'll be at LOAD (Linux Open Administrator Days)

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Getting DropBox to work with SELinux

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Recently Serge mentioned DropBox to me, and I remembered creating an account once but haven’t used or installed it in the last 2 years.

RHCE

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

So today I went for the second time to sit the RHCE exam. This time the results were better then earlier.

RHCT components score: 100.0 RHCE components score: 100.0

Fedora 14 Release party

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The date for the Belgium Fedora Release Party has been set. A bigger (as in “print this and hang it up in your office”) file has been attached.

Large image

LOAD dinner

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday evening we had a dinner with most of the LOAD organizers to catch up and have a nice get together. On the other hand we wanted to discuss some things regarding LOAD.

Fedora 13 Release Party @ hackerspace Ghent

Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This time the Fedora 13 Release Party took place in the Hackerspace in Ghent, called WhiteSpace. As i arrived in the street where the Hackerspace is located i noticed someone who was also at the previous Release party.

Fedora 13 Release Party

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

With imminent release of Fedora 13, there’s also a release party scheduled. fedora 13 release party flyer

Failed RHCE

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Last Friday I took the RHCE exam. Unfortunate i didn’t pass the RHCE part of the exam. These where the numbers I received :

RHCT components score: 100.0% RHCE components score: 62.5%

Linux Open Administration Days

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Loadays has ended and I found it was good.

During the week of LOAD we did the wireless network setup using Linksys WRT/WAP54* devices. We actually expected problems, but beyond some little hickups the wireless worked quite well (Gryp’s megamachine had probably something to do with it :) ).

LOAD countdown

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just 10 days left until LOAD !

After a few weeks of planning, meeting and arranging stuff it’s almost there, the Linux Open Administration Days.

My blog is running on Drupal

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I moved my Wordpress Blog to Drupal. Not that Wordpress is bad, but I’ve to create some websites and I’m planning on using Drupal for them. So this is a good way to get the hang of it.

Event advertisement

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I made some advertisement @work.

Dust cleaning on Thinkpad

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Fan started to make some strange noises. After some dust removing all is fine agian.

Routed Xen setup

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday i needed to setup a Xen machine where only the MAC address of the host (dom0) was allowed by the firewall. Because of this, a bridged setup could not be used since all domU’s will be using their own MAC address.

LOAD logo

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I created a logo for the LOAD event. This is what i have for now, but I’ll probably make some other designs to. If you’ve comments or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to put them here.

F13 : I voted

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I voted for Gloriana.

Fedora 12 release party 2

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was the Fedora 12 release party in Antwerp (Belgium). It was held at the Don Bosco school which had a good infrastructure for this event. A nice room, drinks, food, network, … So, thanks to them for providing this in their spare time !

Fedora 12 Release Party 1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Fedora 12 has been released, and for this there’s a release party being held (probably the first Fedora release party in Belgium).

This will be a relative small event where the focus lies on getting together. You’ll also have the opportunity to install Fedora 12 on your machine.

RHEL SSL certificate error

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday i had a machine that wouldn’t register with the red Hat network. It gave me the following error : “The SSL certificate failed verification”. After some searching i noticed that the machine was still living in 2001, so all i had to do was set the time right.

Auto create home dirs with Samba

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re using Samba to provide network shares to your users, it might be usefull to autmatically create the their homedir when they access it the first time. This can be done by adding this line to the [homes] directive :

Thesis : anti spam by MTA selection

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m publishing the Thesis that I and my fellow student Joost Ringoot made for our Graduate training in evening school. It might be useful to someone.

Projectwerk_2008_AntiSpam

Slow DNS resolving

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The other day one of our internal DNS needed to be shut down for maintenance. During that time people complained about slow responsiveness of the applications running on our RHEL machines. Because the DNS maintenance was the only change we made at that time we started looking in that direction.

Keep VPN Connection alive

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Recently i had a VPN connection with OpenSwan that didn’t stay alive. Adding the following option to the config fixed it

dpdaction=restart

Wordpress on LightTPD

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m running this blog on LightTPD now. It runs a lot faster now on my 64MB VPS.

64MB VPS

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I switched from Typo to Wordpress . I thought it would run a little faster on the 64MB VPS i use on my server. But WP uses MySQL as a backend and that doesn’t really help.

Typo with Phusion Passenger

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m running this blog now with the Phusion Passenger mod for Apache.

Normally this Apache directive should be enough to start your rails app.

VirtualHost *:80;
servername mydomain.tld
documentroot /var/www/html/typo/public
/VirtualHost&gt;</pre>

I had to change it to the following though to get it to work.

An item with the same key has already been added

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

When you try to export a virtual machine and get the following error : "An item with the same key has already been added’. There is probably a snapshot attached to the Virtual Machine.

Installing Fedora 11

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

During the installation of Fedora 11 on my laptop, the installation process did a suggestion for a hostname.

I swear i didn’t enter anything myself …

VMWare vSphere

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a DevOps & Cloud-Native engineer with roots in Linux systems engineering. My journey started with the fundamentals — networking, storage, virtualization, and everything Linux — which gave me a solid foundation for understanding how systems actually work under the hood.