Notes from the on-call shift. Newest first.
The Tools the Enterprise Actually Lets Me Run: My SRE Stack
The honest list of tools I open every day as an SRE. It starts in the cluster and ends with the paperwork.
Behind a Grafana Dashboard Migration: What JSON Can't Do
I had roughly 140 dashboards to move from Grafana v11 to v12. Exporting and importing the JSON was the quick part.
It Took Me Three Days to Install Ubuntu. Ubuntu Wasn't the Problem.
I thought this would take half an hour. Then the USB stick died, the download crawled, and Windows locked the replacement drive.
I Asked an AI Agent to Buy Me a VPS
It compared providers, picked a $35.99-a-year server, filled out the checkout, then got stuck on two password fields.