January 17, 2025: The Friday Retro
The weeks are starting to pick up during the year which makes things a lot more fun overall. Overall stuff is picking up and it is exciting.
Tailscale in my DataCenter
So as a fun thing on Nick. I managed to break my OpenVPN deployment on my PFSense firewall in my Datacenter rack. Fortunately I had Tailscale setup on my Firewall. I was able to add the subnets and immediately begin routing my traffic. I have not taken the time to fix OpenVPN at this point since it has been so successful. I'm planning to do a bigger write up on this overall.
AWS EKS Hybrid Nodes
So I got to work with Google Cloud's attempt at something like this with Anthos. Overall it is something that is interesting since you can leverage AWS for the control plane and then have everything else be worker nodes. However you still have to pay to use your on-premise hardware in this use case.
Overall not sure how effective this is and if it truly saves money from just deploying and running your own cluster. The most interesting parts might come in with storage.
Hybrid Cloud // Multi Cloud // No Cloud
It feels like I have been starting to see more and more around whether or not to use the cloud and whether or not to use multiple clouds. Overall the answer is very much a "it depends".
I work in the cloud a lot and work with groups deploying many various different applications into cloud services. However I also do a lot of bare-metal and datacenter work. So I can see both sides.
I do see a lot of companies that went to the cloud to "save money" are regretting it slightly. It overall probably didn't work out into a saving money situation and was questionable with the amount spent to migrate everything.
Overall this is an article in and of itself that I need to write soon. Something fun to do next week.
Conclusion
It has been another week in the tech industry. It is a fun time and certainly an ever-continuing roller coaster. Check back next week to see what else has changed.
