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darksoulon A Guide to Trust Anchor Rotation with Cert-Manager

This is such a delicate operation - rotating trust anchors manually for a cluster running in production is a bit scary.

darksoulon Federated Data Access for MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Interesting to see a different kind of MCP server here - one that can kind of be a reverse proxy for multiple servers and then pipe that data to a LLM for processing. In theory, at least, this looks potentially valuable and worth of an experiment.

darksoulon Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

According to the public statements, F5 is committing to maintain the current level of resources NGINX has allocated to their open source programs, to keep the same dev team involved, to keep licensing as it currently is, not change any of the repositories on Mercurial and GitHub and to keep the NGINX brand.

Which only means that NGINX will get even better over time.

darksoulon Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

Needs a form fill with a valid email, but it really is the full just-released 300+ page book.

darksoulon Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS

What's fascinating is how fast the washington post is, and how you get different image types depending on the browser you use. Off to check out that CDN provider they use.