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leebriggs.co.uk

Engineering, DevOps & Cloud Computing

DevOps / SRE / infrastructure

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50 from 19 Dec 2014 to 6 Feb 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. Landlord: a tenancy controller and experiment in AI driven product building
  2. The enshittification of enshittification

2025 1

  1. An easy, realistic model for MCP connectivity

2024 3

  1. The Death of Developer Relations
  2. Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?
  3. Free Kubernetes Load Balancers with Tailscale

2023 3

  1. The 300% Production Problem
  2. DSLs are a waste of time
  3. Structuring your Infrastructure as Code

2022 7

  1. Authenticating to AWS the right way for (almost) every use-case
  2. IaC Ergonomics: Choosing an Infrastructure as Code Tool
  3. Why does nobody seem to know what imperative and declarative actually mean?
  4. DevOps is a failure
  5. How I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML
  6. Deploying Kubernetes clusters in increasingly absurd languages
  7. Stop using static cloud credentials in GitHub Actions

2021 4

  1. 5 things you've heard about Pulumi that aren't true
  2. Understanding Pulumi Packages
  3. Understanding Pulumi's apply
  4. Learn to Code with Infrastructure as Code

2020 4

  1. VB.NET - The Future of Infrastructure as Code
  2. Draw your own conclusions
  3. Terraform to Pulumi - What you need to know
  4. The next phase of configuration management

2019 4

  1. Multi-Cluster Parameterized Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
  2. The Fargate Illusion
  3. Why the fuck are we templating yaml?
  4. lbrlabs - A Github Org for my Homelab

2018 4

  1. kr8 - Configuration Management for Kubernetes Cluster
  2. Using Kubeless for Kubernetes Events
  3. Using Pulumi for Kubernetes configuration management
  4. The growing need for Kubernetes Configuration Management

2017 7

  1. KubeCon - Day 3 Recap
  2. KubeCon - Day 2 Recap
  3. KubeCon - Day 1 Recap
  4. An Introduction to Kubernetes FlexVolumes
  5. Kubernetes Networking: Part 2 - Calico
  6. Kubernetes Networking - Part 1
  7. Introducing Graphping

2016 9

  1. Using hiera-eyaml-gpg
  2. Magic with Gitlab CI
  3. Using Puppet's certificates with Kubernetes
  4. Building a Puppet Based Infrastructure - Part 1 - Making Decisions
  5. A Better Puppetmaster Healthcheck
  6. Infrastructure Service Discovery with Consul
  7. Roundrobin Sensu Checks
  8. Sensu Aggregates
  9. Using sensu redaction

2014 2

  1. GOTCHA: Syncing PuppetLabs Repos with MRepo
  2. Embracing the cloud