Hart Hoover

Hart Hoover

Glucose Readings in a Terminal Prompt

Glucose Readings in a Terminal Prompt

I'm a diabetic, and it sucks. But I'm also computery and like to break stuff. Inspired by Scott Hanselman's post on his friend getting his continuous glucose monitor (CGM) readings in his terminal, I decided I also wanted to do this. My CGM is

Compiling your own WSL2 Kernel for Cilium

Compiling your own WSL2 Kernel for Cilium

Recently I joined Isovalent as a Senior Solution Architect (yay!) and wanted to play with their CNI, Cilium, on my laptop with Kubernetes-in-Docker (KinD). I run Windows 11 with WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04), where all my code-related stuff happens.

Kong Gateway and proxy_protocol on AWS EKS

Kong Gateway and proxy_protocol on AWS EKS

This post will help you take advantage of proxy_protocol to preserve the client IP address with Kong on Kubernetes.

Relaunching a Blog

Relaunching a Blog

New blog, now on Ghost. I previously had a blog but stopped posting and made the site into a landing page. I needed a better hub for things that I also own, so here we go. I ported my older tech posts and hopefully I'll blog more going

What's New in 2019

What's New in 2019

I wanted to blog quickly about what I’ve been up to lately, because 2018 was crazy (so I want to look back a little) and there’s stuff to look forward to in 2019. Yes I know it’s April, it’s taken a bit to figure it out

The San Antonio DevOps Meetup: A Retrospective

The San Antonio DevOps Meetup: A Retrospective

The San Antonio DevOps meetup is no more, so I wanted to document my thoughts and feelings on what was good, what was terrible, and if I did it again, what I would change.

Using Kaniko for Container Builds on Kubernetes

Using Kaniko for Container Builds on Kubernetes

CI/CD with Kubernetes is really at least two pipelines, potentially using multiple tools to get the job done. * CI! A pipeline to test, build, and push an image to a remote image registry * CD! A pipeline to deploy that image to Kubernetes by either creating or updating manifests or

Pretty AlertManager Alerts in Slack

Pretty AlertManager Alerts in Slack

Prometheus alerting through AlertManager can be configured to send messages to Slack. Alerts sent to Slack, by default, are not very rich in detail: The default configuration for Slack in the AlertManager documentation is set under receivers: receivers: - name: slack_webhook slack_configs: - send_resolved: false api_url: