Peter Wiggers

Clay, −8 to −15 m NAP

Kubernetes & platform

Dense, heavy, holds up a lot of weight. Drain it properly or it slides.

  1. 3 min read

    Making Flux fast with 1,200 tenants in one repository

    What I learned tuning Flux's kustomize-controller for a monorepo with 1,200 tenants, including a /tmp trick that made it into the official Flux docs.

  2. 1 min read

    Your requests and limits are where the cloud bill hides

    How right-sizing Kubernetes workloads cut public cloud spend by roughly 40% across thirty-odd clusters.

  3. 3 min read

    Database migrations in GitOps need a Job, not a pipeline

    With Flux there's no deploy pipeline to run migrations in. A Kubernetes Job in its own Kustomization, plus one dependsOn, gets you migrations that run once and before your app.