Archive - The Dank Tec Newsletter

How to Choose Technology

In a complex, fast-paced landscape with constantly shifting goalposts and endless choice it can be tricky to decide on tech and even tricker to be…

Feb 3 •

January 2024

K3s on DigitalOcean, fully automated

In this tutorial we utilize Terraform & Ansible to deploy a K3s cluster on cheap DO Droplets.

Jan 16 •

December 2023

Logs are boring… and expensive

There is a solution! And it’s not a commercial product!

Dec 19, 2023 •

The Rise of The Free SSL Certificate

In this article I delve into how the SSL Certificate landscape has changed, and the trade-off between free+automated and expensive+manual.

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

The Dead Dream of Cloud Portability

Why can't we just switch clouds vendors?

Nov 24, 2023 •

The History of Infra-As-Code

Let's take a look at the history behind some of these frameworks to guess at what the future will look like.

Nov 22, 2023 •

The HashiCorp Licensing Changeup

Why did the licence model underpinning one of the internet's favourite infrastructure tools change overnight?

Nov 21, 2023 •

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