Thursday, February 20, 2020
In order to document all the funny stuff that happens inside, I tried to explore crun, the OCI runtime that is proposed by default by podman.
Quite a bit of fun to define terms such as "container runtime" or "container engine". Scott McCarthy and Dan Walsh wrote an interesting blog article on the topic, definitely worth reading.
Also spent some time trying to read the extensive white paper Baidu wrote on their use of Kata Containers.
To my chagrin, much like the
Kubernetes Patterns book (compliment of Red Hat), I guess I will
never find the time to read it as carefully as I would like 
Try Cockpit, it's worth it
Some interesting experiments trying to automatically install CRC cluster led me to experiment again with Cockpit. If you don't know, Cockpit is a web-based system interface, and frankly, for basic monitoring, it's starting to look great (not so much yet for system management, but that's coming IMO).
Of course, there are a few rough edges. I had to file an issue for bad self-signed certificates after system upgrade.
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