Visual Studio Code and Dev containers in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

 Posted on April 1, 2020  (Last modified on April 8, 2020)  |  Stuart Leeks

UPDATE (2020-04-08): With the 1.44 release of Visual Studio Code (and the corresponding Remote Containers release), the Insiders release is no longer needed as the . I have updated the post to reflect this (update made in vscode dev container on stable release 😁). Introduction In my previous post I gave some thoughts on using Visual Studio Code dev containers. Until very recently your source code needed to be cloned in Windows in order to be able to build and run dev containers with Visual Studio Code. [Read More]
vscode  containers  dev-containers  WSL 

Visual Studio Code and Dev Containers

 Posted on March 31, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Visual Studio Code has support for Remote Development which is a really cool feature. You can connect to another machine via SSH and work with code there (the language services etc run remotely which is the really cool part!), connect to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or run your development environment in containers (aka dev containers). The last of these is the topic for this post. My team has been using dev containers quite heavily for the last few months and found a lot of benefits with them. [Read More]
vscode  containers  dev-containers 

Error Back-off with Controller Runtime

 Posted on February 2, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Kubebuilder provides tooling to help get you started quickly writing operators for Kubernetes, and builds on top of controller-runtime. I’ve been looking at how errors are handled in a couple of Kubebuilder projects recently. I’d seen a couple of GitHub issues that mentioned that controller-runtime has back-off behaviour for errors so started looking through the docs to find out more, but didn’t find anything. If I get chance, I’d like to find a suitable place to send a PR to add some details in the docs, but for now I’m collating my notes here as a reference for future me! [Read More]
golang  kubernetes  kubebuilder  controller-runtime 

Working With Multiple Kubernetes Contexts

 Posted on January 24, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

If you’re working with Kubernetes then there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve been working with kubectl! There’s also a pretty good chance that you end up working with more than one cluster context. So, how do you manage multiple contexts? KUBECONFIG One way that you might have encountered is obtaining a kubeconfig file that contains the details of how to connect to a cluster. kubectl allows you to pass a --kubeconfig option to commands to specify which kubeconfig should be used to connect to a cluster to execute the command. [Read More]
kubernetes  kubectl  tips-and-tricks 

Working With Git Rebase in Visual Studio Code

 Posted on January 23, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Following the git theme for mini-posts, I thought I’d give git rebase a mention this time. When I first started working with git I found a way to pretend that it was a source control system like any other that I’d used. Eventually, I was working on a pull request for an OSS project and a maintainer asked me to rebase my changes. Now, I’d heard of rebase at that point but I hadn’t used it, so I was a bit daunted. [Read More]
git  vscode  tips-and-tricks 

Using Event Filters with Kubebuilder

Part 2: Filtering Updates

 Posted on January 17, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Background As I recently posted, I’ve worked on a couple of projects that have involved using Kubebuilder to create Kubernetes operators. In last post we looked at using event filters to prevent delete notifications being processed by the reconciliation loop. Another thing I’ve noticed as I’ve been developing operators is that the flow when an object is created is typically: receive create notification, take some action, update the object Status property. [Read More]
kubernetes  kubebuilder  operators  controller-runtime 

Connection re-use in Golang with http.Client

 Posted on January 8, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Just before Christmas I was working with Eliise and Lawrence and we observed port exhaustion during load testing of a Golang application that makes HTTP requests against an API. I hoped for a quick win and had a quick scan of the code but that confirmed that the was correctly reading the Body and calling Close - time to dig a bit deeper. After some head-scratching we noticed that the code creates a new http. [Read More]
golang  net/http  scalability 

Using Event Filters with Kubebuilder

Part 1: Filtering Deletes

 Posted on January 6, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

UPDATE (2020/01/08 ): After testing this in another project I discovered that the NotFound checking is still required in the case where the reconciliation has been requeued and the object is deleted in the interim period. Even with this code, I still prefer not having the NotFound output in my logs for the default case. Background A couple of projects recently have involved using Kubebuilder to create Kubernetes operators. Kubebuilder scaffolds out a go application and then lets you focus on writing the logic of the reconciliation loop which is the core part of the operator. [Read More]
kubernetes  kubebuilder  operators  controller-runtime