July 26, 2021

Last friday, I attended a kubernetes #in-dev community session around the Cluster API (CAPI) project.

This was my very first time knowing what CAPI project is about (although, I’ve come across the name quite a lot of times before). And well, I found it to be a very interesting one for me. The reason being CAPI is a project, a tooling that helps with managing cluster infrastructure as declarative configuration....

July 25, 2021

On my local machine, I use a starship cross-shell prompt setup on top of bash (which I truly find as a very handy tool!)

So, as part of my day to day work, I require to spin up or connect to multiple kubernetes & OpenShift clusters at a time. Although starship has an inbuilt kubernetes module, to dynamically configure the shell prompt based on the currently active kubernetes cluster,...

July 24, 2021

I started reading (actually, listening to) the book, Pragmatic Programmer in the morning, today. I have just finished the first chapter. I feel it’s a very “easy to consume” book (which is a very good thing for me). It talks about values & information that are real gem (& frequently forces to question my current beliefs & facts about programming & it’s surrounding bits & eventually help in ending up doing a...

June 27, 2021

Very quick notes from this previous week:

sig-arch KEP reading club community meeting

I followed up with the recording of the recent (and the second) sig-arch KEP reading club community meeting. I couldn’t join it live ( but for someone who want to join, it happens every 2nd week, on Monday from 8:30 – 9:30 PM IST tz. Subscribe to sig-arch mailing list for invite!).

June 20, 2021

Very quick notes from this previous week:

passed Red Hat certified specialist in OpenShift Administration exam

This is what all I did for this last whole week (mostly).

• Prepared for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280V45K) exam.
• Appeared first time on June 15, 2021 (Tuesday) & failed with a very not so good score.
• Re-appeared on June 18, 2021 (Friday) & passed this time with...

June 14, 2021

A few days back, I had a small, very useful conversation with a friend from the community. We were discussing, How to ask someone for a 1:1 (learning or mentoring) session?

This is what I do! ⬇️

(and so, I’m putting the raw conversation below, just that I feel this might help someone else too, who are like me. 🙂)

June 10, 2021

(Thursdays are the weekly 1:1 meetings with dims. You could find the agenda document here)

Today’s meeting was a discussion in continuation to this previous blog, where I wrote about dims giving me a walkthrough of the k8s testgrid dashboard.

As a takeaway, I had left for myself a home-work exercise in the end of that discussion. Below is where I’m trying to take notes of what I learnt...

June 9, 2021

Quick notes from today:

brainstormed on proposing the plural version for klog.KObj

• Couple of weeks back, I had picked up this issue Propose plural version for klog.KObj #102434 as part of a requirement in the structured logging migration work. Although, I didn’t assign the issue then, to myself because I wasn’t quite sure about the blueprint (structure of input arguments, & the output format) for this intended new function
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June 04, 2021

Jason Braganza pointed me to this recent episode of Deep Questions with Cal Newport podcast, Ep. 81: How Do I Avoid Burnout?

He strongly emphasized listening to one specific question discussed during the podcast.

This is the one ~ How do you focus on Deep Work and concentrate while dealing with emotional turmoil in your personal life?

I took notes of this question’s answers & that’s what this post...

June 2, 2021

Quick notes from today:

worked on PR reviews on the watch request handler server side & client side timeout settings docs

• Not much I did, other than rephrasing & removing & discussing more on some sections of docs in the PR ~ add documentation for the server & client side timeout #1467, as part of the review suggestions.

  Ok, that’s still some substantial work, so fine!

• ...