Intro Recently, I’ve been working with a customer who wants to provide databases on their Kubernetes cluster. Ever since Microsoft’s SQL Server was released on Linux some years ago, I’ve been fascinated with it. I decided to give it a go recently on Kubernetes, and get it all working. This is part one, where I deploy SQL server without persistent storage. In part two, I will discuss using persistent storage.

Intro I’ve been doing a lot with terraform lately, and I’ve been looking for ways to make my terraform configurations a lot simpler and have less repetition. Like a lot of people, I’ve found myself repeating the same code over and over. An example is where I repeat the same resource over and over but with different configuration parameters. It’s essentially the same resource. Why should I do this? There has to be a better way.

Intro I recently discovered NGINX Unit - now there’s a disclaimer here as well - I work for the company that produces this software. I do think that it’s a very very cool piece of open source software, so it generally suits my ethos: Open Source Super cool software Extensible Makes my life as a developer easier It pretty much ticks all the boxes. What is it? This one is a little harder to answer.