Podiant - Mark Steadman

Podiant

A collection of 7 posts

Installing Rancher to create and manage a Kubernetes cluster

Installing Rancher to create and manage a Kubernetes cluster

Update: When I went through this initially, I didn't realise I was setting up a high-availability cluster meant just to run Rancher... which no-one needs. So instead I checked out the guide on running a single node setup, and provisioned my Kubernetes cluster through the Rancher CLI. The

Breaking up a monolith

Breaking up a monolith

Project Anvil is the name I gave to the biggest and most significant project refactor I’ve ever undertaken. I don’t want to call it a rewrite - although it really feels like one - because the actual functionality and language isn’t changing; mostly I’m just moving

The turd in the punch bowl

The turd in the punch bowl

Yesterday I’d got a tweet from an angry kid who was complaining that his podcast had “suddenly” become unavailable, seemingly for no apparent reason. I replied, saying that I was sorry he’d missed the emails, tweets, Facebook and Twitter posts, blog posts, podcast episodes and persistent banner alerts

From S3 to Spaces

From S3 to Spaces

A productive weekend in which everything didn’t fall apart, which was good. I spent a good deal of Saturday getting things ready to move all the Podiant static and media files from Amazon S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces, as they use the same SDK. For the most part this went

Hootenanny

Over the Christmas period I’d done a few bits and bobs to try and make Podiant ready for a move to new architecture: Python 3, the whole immutable infrastructure thing, and separating assets from Bloomsbury Digital into the new company. This all came to something of a head on

The hangover

Too much wine is a bad idea. More than two regular-sized glasses and I’m no good. Woke up with an absolute stinker of a headache. Really horrible. Glad I had some decent painkillers, as they seem to have worked their magic, pretty much. Well, that and coffee. So it

I made a mess on the Internet

I made a mess on the Internet

Rough day. It started early - I got up before 6am - and got to work on a new idea for solving the RSS problem. I’d been storing feeds in S3 very recently, but getting NginX to silently redirect to those feeds. This meant that NginX was often busy