I was a long time Vim user, long before Neovim was born. I was sold to Neovim when CoC came out and there were some features that don’t work with Vim. At that time, Neovim was marketed as Vim but with more sane default experience. As time goes by, now Neovim is more than just Vim with better defaults. In this post, I will share my two cents on why Neovim is so much better than Vim, at least for me.
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I have finally managed to get everything in this site from Wordpress to Hugo.
Everything is looking great, especially for the speed that I will never get from any CMS out there.
I hesitated the move a little when people are recommending me static site generator like jekyll and Hugo.
I always thought that it will be hard, manually writing the entire website using html and css codes.
Turns out I was wrong all along, I haven’t touch a single html file during this process of migrating.
The biggest difference between my setup and your setup might be our configuration files. In Unix world we call them dotfiles. Dotfiles are files whose filename starts with a dot and hidden by default in our file managers.
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I always love the idea of GitOps, where everything I have in a git repo represents the current state of my application. But not everything are made for GitOps, so we have to sort of “make it work”. In this post, I will show you how I manage to GitOps my Home Assistant configurations. Spoiler, this is hacky and messy at the same time, so please bear this in mind before continuing.
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Having an up-to-date Kubernetes node is important, especially security updates. Sometimes an update requires a reboot to take effect, and you don’t want to keep checking them manually. In this post, I will share about how I automate my Kubernetes nodes to reboot when necessary using Kured.
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Sometimes there are values that you want to use multiple times in your manifest files. Usually, we define them using a config map or secret and we either mount them as a file or environment variable. This is easy if you don’t use GitOps and have a small amount of pods. Also, having a single configmap and secret will clean up a lot of mess out of your cluster, and this is what variable substitution will do for you. I find this really useful especially for sensitive information you don’t want people all around the world to see. In this post, I will show you how I do variable substitution using Flux GitOps tool.
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Following my previous post about Kubernetes management using Flux, this post will cover secret management using SOPS and age. SOPS is a tool to encrypt and decrypt text files while age is the encryption tool that is simple, modern, and secure.
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