TL;DR — Iptables is very brain hurty (I hope this is understood as a warning for what the rest of this post will cover…)

Containerd is a popular container runtime used in Kubernetes. It serves as the underlying engine responsible for managing low-level tasks, such as creating and managing container sandboxes, starting processes within those sandboxes, and handling image pulling. As Containerd plays a crucial role in the smooth operation of containerized applications, monitoring its performance and health becomes essential.

Cozystack is a free PaaS platform and framework for building clouds.

With Cozystack, you can transform your bunch of servers into an intelligent system with a simple REST API for spawning Kubernetes clusters, Database-as-a-Service, virtual machines, load balancers, HTTP caching services, and other services with ease.

You can use Cozystack to build your own cloud or to provide a cost-effective development environments.

Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering.

Tofu Controller (previously known as Weave TF-Controller) is a controller for Flux to reconcile OpenTofu and Terraform resources in the GitOps way. With the power of Flux together with OpenTofu and Terraform, Tofu Controller allows you to GitOps-ify infrastructure, and application resources, in the Kubernetes and IAC universe, at your own pace.

Greenmask is a powerful open-source utility that is designed for logical database backup dumping, obfuscation, and restoration. It offers extensive functionality for backup, anonymization, and data masking. Greenmask is written entirely in pure Go and includes ported PostgreSQL libraries, making it platform-independent. This tool is stateless and does not require any changes to your database schema. It is designed to be highly customizable and backward-compatible with existing PostgreSQL utilities.

Most of you who are following the ArgoCD project might know this already. With the ArgoCD v2.9, there was a specific feature that made it part of the release and I want to share it with you in this post.