aws

The Grass Is Rarely Greener

January 30, 2022  -   7 mins read time -   1375 words -  garrardkitchen

azure, aws, empty promises, building relationship, willing, attrition, managed service

I recently had a conversation that stirred up some surpressed memories. The conversation was related to moving to a different cloud vendor. That journey didn’t work out so well for me and the company I was working for at the time. Sadly, that company stopped trading and I don’t think it’s that much of a leap to link that journey to the demise of that company. Hopefully, now the title of this post is starting to make more sense? ...

Kubernetes on Windows

April 6, 2020  -   7 mins read time -   1467 words -  garrardkitchen

blogging, kubernetes, setup, windows, containers, pods, services, azure, aws, gcp

This post is a reminder to me of what needs to be installed in order for a pod, created from a local image, that is to be served up via a kubernetes cluster, to be run from your local development environment. What is Kubernetes and why is it so important? “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. ...