Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

01 Jul 2024

Upgrading microk8s (snap) on Ubuntu

I have been using microk8s for a couple of years now. On my ubuntu system it’s installed as a snap and was stuck o...
16 Jun 2022

Parsing with Pest

A couple of weeks ago I was working on datafusion-catalogprovider-glue, a catalogprovider for Datafusion sourcing from A...
28 Apr 2022

Notes on running (java) FlightSqlExample

Here are my notes on how to run the sample java Arrow Flight SQL server and client. Clone https://github.com/apache/arro...
28 Apr 2022

Notes on using grpc with rust and tonic

In the Tonic examples proto files are used to generated service and client stubs with tonic_build. The Getting started s...
08 Nov 2021

Hosting a secure registry on microk8s

The documentation for microk8s seems to suggest that there is a built-in registry that can be used, but not in a secure ...
15 Mar 2021

Notes on microk8s and cert-manager

Last couple of weeks I’ve been using MicroK8s for local development. Installing current version of cert-manager ju...
20 Jan 2021

Use cases for Github Actions

These days many systems are built with Unix Philosophy in mind, but the applications are in the form of containers. How ...
05 Jan 2021

cluster-info on k8s cluster with limited permissions

When you have limited access (eg: only a specific namespace (~ openshift project) on a kubernetes cluster you may not be...
09 Dec 2020

Leverage Terraform to create virtual machine scaleset with spot instances

In a previous post I demonstrated how easy it has become to deploy a webapplications with an HTTPS backend on Kubernetes...
25 Feb 2020

Leverage Terraform, NGINX Ingress Controller, cert-manager and Let's Encrypt to quickly create a Kubernetes cluster on AWS.

In my previous post I demonstrated how easy it has become to deploy a webapplications with an HTTPS backend on Kubernete...