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Me: Create a viral post about Grafana’s long-term reliability.

Grafana: Updates to React 19 without adding new features, but risks breaking existing plugins.

grafana.com/blog/react-1...
React 19 is coming to Grafana: what plugin developers need to know | Grafana Labs
As part of the upcoming Grafana 13 release, we will be updating to React 19. Here’s how this change affects Grafana plugins, and how to prepare your plugin for compatibility ahead of the release.
grafana.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Found AWS-Web-Identity-Federation feature. Found it cool. Wrote a little post about it: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-12...
AWS Web-Identity-Token - The free IDP for all your OnPrem solutions
AWS created a new service which can be used to validate requests form aws in none AWS hosted infrastructure at no additional cost. It creates a managed OIDC-Iss…
henrikgerdes.me
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New post about running GitLab CI jobs without root: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-10...

#rootless #docker #gitlab
Rootless GitLab Runners
Learn how to run any GitLab CI Job without giving anything root. Even dind. No Workload changes required!
henrikgerdes.me
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How do you avoid the #DockerHub pull limit?
Just use the ionos pull through registry: `harbor.infra.cluster.ionos.com/docker.io`
No Limits, No Auth, No Guarantees
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Expectations on VW software are low, yet they still manage to underdeliver. Either their entire IDP service is down or I just bricked my account.
August 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The combination of kuberc, kubecolor and krew it the sh*t for #kubernetes productivity. Love it!
June 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Two years ago I found a blog-post from ‪@mccune.org.uk‬ about disabling `anonymous-auth` in #kubernetes - it broke my cluster...

Now Kubernetes provides a way to implement his recommendation without scarifying functionality.
You may wanna check out how:
henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-05...
Follow Up: Let's talk about anonymous access to Kubernetes
Raesene's Ramblings posted a great article about Kubernetes default enabled anonymous-auth setting. But it can't always be disabled, nevertheless k8s evolves fa…
henrikgerdes.me
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
YAY - Helm 3.18 now ships with a template for HTTPRoutes!

It took a little to get this new Starter-Template merged, but now users will have it a little easier to start using the #Kubernetes #Gateway-API in their #HELM Charts.
github.com/helm/helm/re...
Release Helm v3.18.0 · helm/helm
Helm v3.18.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack: f...
github.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Managed to shrink my golden Debian based #Kubernetes vm image to about 1GB and 0,5 GB compressed. An entire disk image with kernel, coreutils, kubelet and containerd smaller then most OpenShift container images 😙
May 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I know it is called flightmode, not carmode - still no reason to crash and reboot the entire infotainment system in your #vw when switched on.

But we know software is not your profession
April 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Better together?!

I recently worte a small post on how you can reuse your existing #ansible playbooks to provision infra faster and more reliable by creating golden images with #packer.
You can check it out here if you are interested: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-04...
Level up your Ansible Code - Creating Golden Images
Ansible is a good start to automate recurring tasks, but it is slow. In combination with other IaC tools you can make your infrastructure truly reproducible and…
henrikgerdes.me
April 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM