Author: calvarado04

The force of gravity

Back in 2007, this track helped me to come back on track. I was failing on all the things that I had supposed to do by that age, badly. It took me around seven years of my life to overcome such self inflicted damage (messing around just after becoming an adult is quite serious thing
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Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster for Kubernetes (ECK) on Google Compute Platform (GCP on GKE) with Terraform – Part I

This will be a very technical post but I think that is gonna be also quite interesting if you are working with cloud technologies. Elasticsearch is a pretty nice technology widely used on big data stuff, analysis and so on. However, this tool is heavy and little bit difficult to deploy and maintain on healthy
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Deploy a GKE Cluster with Portworx

Let's deploy a nice GKE Cluster with a customized Portworx deployment using security capabilities and encrypted volumes Get your own GCP account, download gcloud and authenticate on your laptop. Wail until having your cluster available Then you can install Portworx using the operator. operator.yaml px-enterprisecluster.yaml You can try to test the features of Portworx deploying
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Chess and more

I will start from the beginning. I started with chess back in 2002, when my brother and I used to play at a small chess club, we were playing just for fun primarily, however, it was pretty exciting because there was many adult players with a solid career on their own fields, such as lawyers,
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