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We had our quarterly Hackday at Open Earth Foundation today. It's a day where we don't have any meetings or do any regular tasks. We just get a day to exercise our creativity and make cool things with and for each other.
Some of the projects my colleagues worked on:
- a conference on Open Source and climate change
- a Jira plugin that scores tickets for team effort and mental state
- a dashboard for evaluating biodiversity at a national level
- an AR visualization of climate data on a spinning globe
- a rapid prototyping gap analysis tool
- a documentation section on our wiki for leadership and communications skills
Me, I decided to set up a Mastodon instance for our team.
Total goose egg. I got absolutely nowhere.
I started off making my own K8S layout and after a couple of hours realised I should use a Helm chart instead.
I tested a few Helm charts on my local Docker Desktop, and none worked. So I decided to set up an EKS cluster to run it instead.
Cue two hours of dorking around with IAM JSON. I wasn't ever able to use Helm with the half-broken cluster I got working.
With an hour left, I decided to spin up an EC2 instance, run microk8s, and see if that would work.
I got Helm to run the install, but it kept failing. After multiple passes through values.yml, I ended up with about half the pods running, and all the important ones mysteriously silent.
It sucked!
I'm going to give it another try over the holidays, but jeez. I think I might be doing it wrong.