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I took a shot at converting the current K8s manifest generation scheme with Kustomize to a KCL setup.

Pro:

• I get validation OOTB
• The KCL project maintains an extensive list of schemas for k8s manifests that can directly be used
• Import mechanism feels less convoluted than mucking around with kustomization.yaml files
• Templating with the option builtin is less verbose than the various patching options Kustomize offers
• I could do fancy programmy thingies with KCL (though I didn't)

Cons:

• KCL sometimes has multiple ways to achieve something and it is often not clear which to pursue or one of them is not well documented so you don't know about it at first etc.
• In order to take advantage of Flux image automation I still need to keep a (small) kustomization.yaml around
• There is a Flux-KCL-controller but it seems very alpha to me
• If you need schemas that the community doesn't (yet) maintain (which I did), you need to jump through a number of hoops to make that happen (luckily this can be automated)
• The documentation is mostly there but very scattered and not well searchable

I think the result I achieved isn't too bad but we'll have to see how well this holds up in the future.

#kcl #kubernetes #k8s

My employer is hosting a hackathon. Two of the three topics are "Sustainability" and "AI Innovation".

I tried to come up with a snide remark but I got nothing. Just speechless.

I really wish KCL had better documentation. And more help with troubleshooting.

I now have a working Zigbee controller. Now we wait for the first (and only, for the time being) Zigbee LED to arrive.

The point of no return is near!

I decided to start fooling around with Home Assistant and smart LEDs. This might be the beginning of the end.

Incidentally, if anyone is using Home Assistant for cool stuff, I'd love to read from you! Preferably about said cool stuff, just to be clear.

I just debugged and fixed an extremely annoying printer issue where my PC wouldn't let me add my Brother printer as a new printer. The underlying issue was a misconfiguration in mDNS. Who the hell is supposed to know about that?!

Am I the only one around here who has two monitors on their desk but doesn't use a mount setup?

Hello from the new apartment. First thing I set up is the modem/router...

God, I hate getting sick. Being down and not able to work isn't that bad but the desperate existentialism is something I can do without, thanks.

Today I learned about Hitchen's Razor. I like the concept.