This month, it's a menagerie of open source tools for subtracting the annoying and tedious parts of Kubernetes. And I couldn't help but enlist my friend, Python for a little help 🐍

Need cheap remote clusters?

Kube-Hetzner does it in Terraform for 🥜s

Last month, I introduced Pulumi as a great choice for launching Kubernetes clusters but I don't want to leave our Terraform friends out in the cold either. Kube-Hetzner is a tool for building cheap, cheap clusters on German cloud provider, Hetzner.

Ctlptl creates easy local clusters through a unified command interface

Whether you use Minikube, Docker Desktop or K3d to launch local clusters, you can now declaratively create them and that's great if you're the kind of dev building and destroying clusters as frequently as I do.

Destruct-o blast-o →

Go from Python to YAML to Python again with hikaru

Yes, I would like Python everywhere, please.

Adopt that pet boa...

Katenary produces configurable Helm charts from Docker Compose

Recently I wrote an article on how developers can go from Docker Compose to Kubernetes using the official Kubernetes tool, Kompose. If I wrote it all over again, I'd pick Katenary because it's a lot more powerful and saves the extra legwork of all that value templating.

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🌸 Cabinet of Curiosities

What your author is thinking of this week:

• Robert McCloskey wrote the children's book, Make Way for Ducklings, among others. A twenty minute documentary explores his artistic process at his home on an island off the coast of Maine.
• Last week, I went to the Museum  of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California. If you're in the LA area it is a must see, even if you've never fancied yourself a museum-flaneur. It's a mix of historical myth and fact that is bound to delight you.
• "I feel bad for the inventor of Comic Sans. I, too, have made mistakes."

✍🏻 By Tao Hansen

I am happiest when I help others. That’s why I’d love to help you wherever you are in your container development story, even if you’re brand new. Please reply to this email or reach out on Mastodon if you find containers scary, unapproachable or just would like to rubberduck 🦆