Friedrich's "Fred" Notes

Friedrich "Fred" Clausen

I am a build and infra automation engineer working to become a better all-round developer. This blog is a record of my travels in both the development, infrastructure, and computer science mathematics space. The info on this blog may be correct or it may not; happy to get feedback either way.

Using JobDSL Configuration Blocks to Set Additional Branch Source Options

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Kubernetes metrics-server with TLS verification

These are my notes on what it took to integrate metrics-server into my sandbox Kubernetes the Hard Way learning cluster. Note my cluster is on VirtualBox loc...

Using a custom java.time date with Jackson

It look me quite a bit more research to figure out how to use a custom (or lightly custom) time format with Jackson. I required a date format to be deseriali...

Function currying example that works for me

This example helps me understand one use case of function currying - pre-applying a common argument to make code more succinct. These are two utility functio...

Cleaning up old Kubernetes deployments

We run a lot of transient deployments on Kubernetes as part of Jenkins end-to-end (E2E) testing. Usually the Jenkins job cleans this up but sometimes it fail...