Nothing in banking that is good and pleasant to use for clients ever lasts indefinitely. This is a business that can only survive on making customers’ lives miserable. I’ve been a Simple client for some time after closing PNC. It’s always been just “out of the way” and has never caused problems or cost me money unfairly. Which is why I’ve been waiting for them to either be acquired by a bigger, horrible bank or go under for some time.
Just installed these Docker images (Nextcloud and Collabora) on my private k8s cluster. Fantastic setup and I have docs and collaboration everywhere (iOS, WebDAV, Linux, Windows) and it’s out of the hands of Google. I like the integrations that some OSs do (Ubuntu). This is just one of the open source projects that are genuinely better than some closed/paid solutions (IBM Notes anyone)?
Sure, but markets since 2009 mostly look at how much the Fed is buying (printing, whatever). Yes printing money bad, yes inflation some time in 20 years, yes unwinding their balance sheet will kill us all. None of it matters in the now, which is what markets are, now - with some looking ahead.
So the volatility in the fundamentals is accompanied by a forceful response with QE. Nothing like we’ve ever seen. The QE the Fed is doing today trounces 2008’s QE.
So that’s where we are now. Unemployment numbers come out, market goes up. Why? Same reason it has for the last 10 years - bad data good because Fed will just juice the market at any sign of trouble.
In the end though the stock market doesn’t matter for 90% of people but what it is doing is amplifying inequality. I see this crisis amping up inequality to levels we’ve never seen before. We’ll see the same story eventually with unemployment creeping down from the 20 or 30% high it’ll reach but behind it there’ll be even more people dropping out of the workforce and wages will stay stagnant.
There has been some commentary studying past pandemics where a silver lining could come from worker rights making a comeback so who knows, perhaps the lucky ones keeping/returning to their jobs get a raise in benefits (healthcare, leave) or pay.
Yeah I would agree with that. I really dove into and started fully deploying Kube around v1.5.
I would agree that Docker oversells and underperforms as well. I think it should be relegated strictly as a containerisation primitive and let the big boys handle orchestration.
Docker documentation seems to lag behind a whole minor version of the actual software.
It still baffles me how they are pushing Swarm as a production-ready orchestration tool but don't have persistent volumes completely figured out. But I'm just happy Kube is doing it right.
Yeah, lots of this article didn't make any sense. Especially with regards to Kubernetes.
Most of this seems like reluctance of new Google or "Beta" technology.
I tried my hand at Docker Compose, then Docker Swarm as "native" Docker solutions for quickly deploying scalable WordPress LEMP stacks. I would completely agree that neither of those are mature for this type of implementation, especially when it comes to persistent storage.
Kubernetes, on the other hand, is another story. As long as you stick to using Docker strictly for building your container images, then Kube literally takes care of everything else. And this is all coming from a strictly ops perspective.
EDIT: I would also note that Kubernetes docs are probably the best I've seen. They may be complicated, yes, so up your reading/comprehension skills and quit wining :)
Just released a stable version (v1.0) with no TLS. Working on getting kube-lego to issue certificates automatically and do HTTPS exclusively. Would be awesome if I could get more eyes and brains involved.