https://broersma.dev/ Recent content on Rouke Broersma Hugo -- gohugo.io rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:38:34 +0000 https://broersma.dev/talos-linux-and-dynamic-resource-allocation-beta/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:38:34 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/talos-linux-and-dynamic-resource-allocation-beta/ I upgraded my Kubernetes cluster to 1.32 recently and the changelog mentioned that Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) had been graduated to Beta. I had been using the Intel GPU Device Plugin to schedule pods with Hardware Device requirements until now. This seemed like a good opportunity to try out and switch to DRA. Surprisingly, this was fairly simple! I initially ran into some speedbumps but now that I figured it out it’s fairly straightforward. https://broersma.dev/til-helm-boolean-functions-and-falsy-ness/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:46:05 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/til-helm-boolean-functions-and-falsy-ness/ Did you know Yaml is a superset of Json? Probably. Did you realize this means Yaml inherits some of the issues of Json? You’ve probably encountered this before yourself. But did you realize that helm template functions also inherit some of the Json issues? I sure didn’t until it bit me! https://broersma.dev/approve-private-endpoint-connections/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/approve-private-endpoint-connections/ Managing private endpoint connections - especially across Azure AD tenants - can be a chore. In many cases you will have to do this manually and often you will need elevated permissions. Though usually your deployment pipeline already has sufficient permissions on the resource to approve the endpoint connection, so it would be much more convenient if we could make the approval a part of our desired state config. https://broersma.dev/azure-aks-private-clusters/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:39:47 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/azure-aks-private-clusters/ When using Kubernetes it is considered good practice to limit API server access as much as possible. However the default configuration on cloud providers exposes the API server on the public internet. This is fine when you’re giving it a try but once you start using Kubernetes more seriously you will probably want to start locking down access. https://broersma.dev/wsl-and-vpns/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:33:33 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/wsl-and-vpns/ WSL does not play nice with VPNs and you likely will not realize this is the problem at first. Luckily the problem is usually easy to fix. Changing the MTU value of your WSL network adapter is a good start if you are having issues! https://broersma.dev/how-to-use-dedicated-disks-in-wsl/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:49:30 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/how-to-use-dedicated-disks-in-wsl/ When you access Windows files from WSL there is a large price to pay. But if you have important or a lot of data you use in WSL it can be a problem to only use the WSL root filesystem you get by default. It lives only in WSL (with an awkward way to access it from Windows) and to me feels like temporary storage you could lose at any time. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use an external or extra hard disk in WSL while not having to pay the price? Well, now you can! https://broersma.dev/how-to-start-wsl-in-linux-user-home/ Mon, 24 May 2021 17:56:49 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/how-to-start-wsl-in-linux-user-home/ While using the Windows Terminal with WSL and Ubuntu I was bothered by the fact that I would always start in my Windows user home. Luckily there are ways to fix that. https://broersma.dev/hugo-modules-for-themes/ Fri, 21 May 2021 19:56:08 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/hugo-modules-for-themes/ The hugo tutorial tells you to use git submodules for themes. However hugo has a better system for dependencies called modules. I’ ll show you how to switch from git submodules to hugo modules! https://broersma.dev/why-i-chose-hugo/ Sat, 08 May 2021 20:44:16 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/why-i-chose-hugo/ This blog is currently powered by Hugo, a static site generator built in Go. However this was not my first choice. Initially I was going to use Jekyll for the simple reason that I had heard of it before and it is what Github uses to power Github Pages. Almost immediately I decided that while Jekyll seems fine to use I did not want to be limited to what Github natively offers, and I didn’t have to. https://broersma.dev/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 rouke@broersma.dev (Rouke Broersma) https://broersma.dev/about/ Hi! My name is Rouke Broersma. I’m a platform engineer and open source enthousiast. My day-to-day involves delivering production ready managed cloud platforms to customers at Info Support. In my free time I work on Stryker and my Homelab. My main focus area is infrastructure automation.