A first impression of Rust from the perspective of a Go developer

In these uncertain times and multiple months of remote work, at least we have some more time to dive into something new. I have been developing in Go since 2017, learned some TypeScript in the meantime, but few days ago I wanted to get into Rust once again. First time, approximately a year ago I gave up very quickly, realizing that Rust requires lot of time to learn and I didn’t have that much time at the moment....

<span title='2020-12-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>2020-12-26</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Boban Acimovic

Automated MySQL MariaDB tables optimization in Kubernetes

Kubernetes simplified applications management a lot and this also applies to databases like MySQL/MariaDB, but lot of DevOps forget to apply traditional maintenance and optimization which is still necessary unless you are using some operator capable of doing so. The optimization method that will be described here applies just to single and master-slave replicated MySQL/MariaDB instances. If you run some clustered version like Galera , you probably have to find another way because of possible consistence and performance problems during the eventual optimization....

<span title='2020-12-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>2020-12-26</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Boban Acimovic

Develop Kubernetes native applications in Golang with auto-recompile and auto-restart

Do you develop or plan to develop a Kubernetes native application in Golang, controller or operator? Such application strongly depends on being inside Kubernetes and development outside of Kubernetes may be a real hassle. Usually you have to build an image over and over again and restart the pod (with imagePullPolicy set to Always). This is very boring and time consuming procedure. Two years ago I developed an image to auto-recompile and auto-restart Go application, named go-reflex , but it was intented to be used by docker-compose....

<span title='2020-08-28 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>2020-08-28</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Boban Acimovic

Traefik 2.2 can again fully utilize Kubernetes Ingress resources

Learn how to setup Traefik 2.2 on Kubernetes and how to automatically get TLS wildcard certificates. Traefik is a modern Web server made in the cloud era so it’s authors define it as a Cloud Native edge router. It is written in Go and it’s maybe not as fast as nginx or HAProxy, but it is fast enough and in the same time it has great features not present in traditional Web servers....

<span title='2020-07-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>2020-07-31</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Boban Acimovic

Using Traefik 2.2 middlewares with Kubernetes Ingress resources

Since Traefik 2.0, this feature was possible just with custom IngressRoute resources, but it is now possible with normal Kubernetes Ingress as well. So, what is the Traefik middleware, anyways? It is a piece of code which is triggered just before the Ingress itself. Here you can find the full list of available directives that you can use to create your middleware. In this article we are going to define two middlewares, one to redirect www....

<span title='2020-07-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>2020-07-31</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Boban Acimovic