Setting Up a Domain with SSL on DigitalOcean Kubernetes using ExternalDNS and Helm

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A little while back I added support for DigitalOcean to the ExternalDNS Helm chart, and I wanted to share my notes on how to use it. ExternalDNS is an extremely convenient tool that allows you to dynamically control DNS records for your Kubernetes resources just by adding an annotation. In …

A Few Recent DigitalOcean Tools

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Obligatory comment about how it’s been quite awhile since the last time I’ve blogged…

With that out of the way, I wanted to share a few things that I’ve done recently that might be useful for others. In particular, there are a couple DigitalOcean related tools that …

Package Management with Fabric

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Recently, I’ve been using Fabric quite a bit. It is simple, Pythonic, and I’ve grown to enjoy using it for automating basic systems administration tasks when a full-fledged configuration management system is more than you need for the job.

For the most part, Fabric keeps to the basics …

DigitalOcean Indicator

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The other weekend I took some time to play around with the DigitalOcean API, and this is what resulted. The DigitalOcean indicator allows you to monitor and manage your droplets directly from your panel. You can:

• Quickly see which droplets are active.
• Reboot, power on, and/or power down you …

Introducing StackBrowser (and random thoughts on the new Ubuntu SDK)

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If you follow me on Google+, you already know about this, but it seems like it’s time to introduce this to a larger audience. Mostly an excuse to play with the new Ubuntu SDK, I’ve created StackBrowser. It allows you to explore the StackExchange network natively on Ubuntu …