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If you’re like me and just starting your Kubernetes journey, you’ll likely need to write an Operator to manage your custom resources. Kubernetes offers a high-level Go framework called controller-runtime for building such operators; frameworks like Kubebuilder are built on top of it. What do I mean by custom resources? Well, anything that you would create which is not part of the Kubernetes well-known built-in resources - Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, etc. An example might be you adding a new custom Backup resource whose main purpose is to do a scheduled cron job to upload backups to a desired target storage solution. ...

Lately, I’ve been filling in some of the gaps in my software engineering knowledge. One random question that I had was this little message in my Terminal: Last login: Sat Apr 19 00:15:16 on ttys001 What does ttys001 even mean? 🖥️ Terminal, Console, TTY — What’s the Difference? That question led me to explore how terminals actually work. I had always used the default Terminal app on macOS without giving it much thought. Now I know that on modern-day computers, we usually use the word terminal to refer to software programs known as terminal emulators: ...