Your pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
Many of us own at least one Raspberry Pi, and if it's not doing duty as a media player, retro gaming console, blocking ads, or reporting the weather,...
Deploy without credentials with GitHub Actions and OIDC
There's been some talk on Twitter recently about a new feature emerging on GitHub Actions. It allows an action to mint an OpenID Connect (OIDC) token...
How I test OpenFaaS changes with Kubernetes
There are several ways to test changes in OpenFaaS with Kubernetes. I wanted to outline an approach that I find useful, so that new and potential con...
My first eBook launch - results & feedback (10k USD in 27 days)
I wanted to write to you all and share that I've launched my first eBook called "Serverless For Everyone Else" - within the first three hours of laun...
Still in the game: My 2020 Year in Review
I'm still in the game, so join me as I explore the highlights of a second year of independent business and creating Open Source software. I'll share...
containerd development with multipass
About 18 months ago I started a project which developed directly against containerd. This presented a problem which I'd not really encountered before...
OpenFaaS comes to k9s, the Kubernetes CUI
Last night I saw a tweet from Fernand Galiana, the author of the popular open source text UI for Kubernetes named "k9s". Fernand added support for Op...
Build a Serverless appliance with faasd
Have you heard of faasd, the new provider for OpenFaaS? It's just like OpenFaaS on Kubernetes, the same API, same UI, CLI and ecosystem, but without...
Building containers without Docker
In this post I'll outline several ways to build containers without the need for Docker itself. I'll use OpenFaaS as the case-study, which uses OCI-fo...
faasd - lightweight Serverless for your Raspberry Pi
Kick the tires with faasd today, for a lightweight serverless experience that doesn't require Kubernetes. Instead it uses containerd and the existing...