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I’ve started leaning in on kubernetes kustomize to customize my manifests per deployment per environment. Today I learned that it comes with a diff command.

kubectl diff -k k8s/overlays/local

You can enable color diffs by using an external diff provider like colordiff.

export KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF="colordiff -N -u"

You might need to install colordiff if you don’t already have it.

sudo pacman -S colordiff

sudo apt install colordiff

Now I can try out kustomize changes and see the change with kustomize diff.

Animal well does not let you remap keys, and really doesn’t even inform you that it is keyboard compatible. I had to play around and discover the keymap, which can be a bit tricky on a 40% board. This is what I found.

• wasd - move
• space - jump / a
• enter - interact / b
• x - throw
• c - inventory
• 1 - left item / rb
• 2 - open item menu / triangle
• 3 - right item / lb

I’ve been using fastapi more and more lately and one feature I just started using is background tasks [[ thoughts-333 ]].

One Background Task per db entry #

I am using it for longer running tasks and I don’t want to give users the ability to spam these long running tasks with many duplicates running at the same time. And each fastapi worker will be running in a different process so I cannot keep track of work in memory, I have to do it in a distributed fashion. Since they are all running on the same machine with access to the same disk, diskcache is a good choice

What I need #

• check if a job is running
• automatically expire jobs

Less infrastructure complexity #

My brain first went to thinking I needed another service like redis running alongside fastapi for this, then it hit me that I can use diskcache.

How I used diskcache #

Here is how I used diskcache to debounce taking screenshots for a unique shot every 60 seconds.

from diskcache import Cache

jobs_cache = Cache("jobs-cache")

@shots_router.get("/shot/{shot_id}", responses={200: {"content": {"image/webp": {}}}})
@shots_router.get("/shot/{shot_id}/", responses={200: {"content": {"image/webp": {}}}})
async def get_shot_by_id(
    background_tasks: BackgroundTasks,
    request: Request,
    shot_id: int,
):
    shot = Shot.get(shot_id)
    # check if the shot exists and return it or continue to create it.



    is_running = jobs_cache.get(shot_id)

    if is_running:
        expire_time = datetime.fromtimestamp(jobs_cache.peekitem(expire_time=True)[1]) - datetime.now()
        console.print("[red]Already running store_shot: ", shot_id)
        console.print(f"[red]Can retry in {expire_time.seconds}s")
    else:
        jobs_cache.set(shot_id, True, 60)
        background_tasks.add_task(
            store_shot,
            shot_id=shot_id,
        )

Yesterday I realized that I have overlooked the default installation method of the sealed secrets controller for kubernetes kubeseal this whole time an jumped straight to the helm section. I spun up a quick kind cluster and had it up quickly. I can’t say this is any better or worse than helm as I have never needed to customize the install. According to the docs you can customize it with [[ kustomize ]] or helm.

# option if you don't have a cluster try with kind

kind create cluster

curl -L https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.27.0/controller.yaml > controller.yaml

kubectl apply -f controller.yaml