January 4, 2025: The VPC Show

January 4, 2025: The VPC Show
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This is the VPC Show. Where we talk about some random things in tech and what is going on.

Moving from VaultWarden

So for a while now I have been using VaultWarden. I was running a GKE cluster for a long time. I had a lot of different things running in it and it made a lot of things easier. However I moved things away or moved them into my rack and I realized the other month that I was essentially paying $250/month to run VaultWarden. Now look it is fantastic tool and I recommend it to a lot of people. However I have finally made the jump to BitWarden and pay the $10/year. This is freeing up a lot of cash and just gives me some more peace of mind.

I still recommend VaultWarden to anyone wanting to run their own. It is easy to work with and they generally keep it as a compliant BitWarden backend so all of the BitWarden apps generally work with it properly.

GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs - dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Does Helm finally have competition?

It looks like Helm may finally have some real competition. KRO (Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator) is coming up as a way to manage your Kubernetes resources.

Powerful Abstractions for Kubernetes | kro
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Overall if it does become a true Helm competitor then I am excited. Helm has always been a weird one for me. It is super useful but it is far from perfect. I think having some competition could push it to make more updates and help increase the effectiveness of it overall.

DeepSeek getting Banned

So it looks like many different federal groups are beginning to ban DeepSeek.

Texas governor orders ban on DeepSeek, RedNote for government devices
Texas ordered a ban on the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on government devices days after the popular chatbot has shook investors and the tech community.

We are certainly seeing American entities doing this. But Taiwan is also following suit on this one:

Taiwan bans government agencies from using DeepSeek, citing security concerns
Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Friday that public sector workers and critical infrastructure facilities should not use the technology.

Overall this is an interesting update to things. It brings up some interesting questions as to what is going on underneath the hood. Curious to continue to follow along and see what might be going on.