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Found AWS-Web-Identity-Federation feature. Found it cool. Wrote a little post about it: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-12...
AWS Web-Identity-Token - The free IDP for all your OnPrem solutions
AWS created a new service which can be used to validate requests form aws in none AWS hosted infrastructure at no additional cost. It creates a managed OIDC-Iss…
henrikgerdes.me
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New post about running GitLab CI jobs without root: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-10...

#rootless #docker #gitlab
Rootless GitLab Runners
Learn how to run any GitLab CI Job without giving anything root. Even dind. No Workload changes required!
henrikgerdes.me
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How do you avoid the #DockerHub pull limit?
Just use the ionos pull through registry: `harbor.infra.cluster.ionos.com/docker.io`
No Limits, No Auth, No Guarantees
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Expectations on VW software are low, yet they still manage to underdeliver. Either their entire IDP service is down or I just bricked my account.
August 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The combination of kuberc, kubecolor and krew it the sh*t for #kubernetes productivity. Love it!
June 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Two years ago I found a blog-post from ‪@mccune.org.uk‬ about disabling `anonymous-auth` in #kubernetes - it broke my cluster...

Now Kubernetes provides a way to implement his recommendation without scarifying functionality.
You may wanna check out how:
henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-05...
Follow Up: Let's talk about anonymous access to Kubernetes
Raesene's Ramblings posted a great article about Kubernetes default enabled anonymous-auth setting. But it can't always be disabled, nevertheless k8s evolves fa…
henrikgerdes.me
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
YAY - Helm 3.18 now ships with a template for HTTPRoutes!

It took a little to get this new Starter-Template merged, but now users will have it a little easier to start using the #Kubernetes #Gateway-API in their #HELM Charts.
github.com/helm/helm/re...
Release Helm v3.18.0 · helm/helm
Helm v3.18.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack: f...
github.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Managed to shrink my golden Debian based #Kubernetes vm image to about 1GB and 0,5 GB compressed. An entire disk image with kernel, coreutils, kubelet and containerd smaller then most OpenShift container images 😙
May 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I know it is called flightmode, not carmode - still no reason to crash and reboot the entire infotainment system in your #vw when switched on.

But we know software is not your profession
April 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Better together?!

I recently worte a small post on how you can reuse your existing #ansible playbooks to provision infra faster and more reliable by creating golden images with #packer.
You can check it out here if you are interested: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-04...
Level up your Ansible Code - Creating Golden Images
Ansible is a good start to automate recurring tasks, but it is slow. In combination with other IaC tools you can make your infrastructure truly reproducible and…
henrikgerdes.me
April 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM