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Redeploying an Argo-CD Autopilot project
What is Argo-CD Autopilot The Argo-CD Autopilot is a tool which offers an opinionated way of installing Argo-CD and managing GitOps repositories. If you use argo yourself, you probably have an idea or two on how to structure your repositories for maximum effect. But for new projects I like to have my manifests generated. When you start fr... Read More
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Remapping the Office key
finding a new keyboard Recently I have been pondering to upgrade my keyboard from my trusty friend, the microsoft sculpt keyboard. Since I have owned multiple of them throughout the years, I have the theory that with time, the input lag they have, gets worse. What happens is that I will be typing something and there will simply be letter missin... Read More
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ZSH slow response times
Today I found myself with a slow unresponsive zsh console session in certain folders and I spent some time figuring out why. What happen was that every input to my console took like 20 seconds to finish and it was having an impact on my work. It was driving me mad, I rebuild my dev container, rebooted to no avail until I realized: the size of t... Read More
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Configuring Opsgenie in the EU
Hey guys today is more a short rant than anything but my goal was to configure Opsgenie for a Prometheus deployment through Alertmanager. All that sounds easy and quick to do especially when you red tutorials like: https://kb.vshn.ch/vshnsyn/how-tos/opsgenie.html Or look on github https://github.com/Prometheus/Alertmanager/issues/1565 or ev... Read More
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Finding big files with find
I just run into a problem with a client and I thought I would like to share. The task was to find out, why the storage of an ec2 instance had been bloated and was running out of storage. I had already deleted their temp files and other files that were not needed but there was still so much wasted space. Here is a quick way to measure what kind ... Read More