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I just has the most painful time configuring domain based routing in Laravel to work on dev/stage/prod according to env vars.
Everything worked fine in dev - only for me to stuck getting 404s when I deployed to kubernetes.
I keep forgetting the details of this and for some reason the docs seem to be hard to find …
If you have a website on say https://tangiblebytes.co.uk and you want requests for https://www.tangiblebytes.co.uk to be redirected there you need
I ran into the issue of how to manage environment variables with a NextJS app a while ago and made some notes
After living with this for a while and settling on using sops for secrets encryption what I have found works best for me is
At work I’m using Digital Ocean and their managed Kubernetes offering - DOKS
The cluster is almost entirely managed via Helm charts - and even system components that are installed via the Digital Ocean “1 Click” installers are Helm charts really.
Recently we ran into a problem where we needed real IP addresses available to our application - but these were being lost to the load balancer - and I needed to configure Proxy Protocol to re-enable them.
I’m running a service on Kubernetes that hosts multiple websites via different domains.
I had followed the default Helm Chart pattern and ended up with one TLS cert for all the sites.
This worked OK - except that I kept getting downtime when I needed to add a new domain.
So I refactored to have a different certificate for each site.
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There is a fairly severe bug here Ingress-nginx CVE-2025-1974
My understanding is that it is a privilege escalation bug within Kubernetes - and given that I work for a very small team where actually I’m the only one with access - I don’t think I’m immediately vulnerable.
But my understanding is limited and I’m a fan of defence in depth so it’s time to upgrade.
Today while doing a deploy my kubectl command were failing with
Error: Failed to fetch credentials for cluster "some-id" Unable to authenticate you
This was because by doctl token had expired
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Kubernetes provides a wide variety of methods for formatting output
The custom columns output lets you print multiple values defined using jsonpath expressions in a tabular output
While outputting scalar values is reasonably intuitive, I couldn’t see in the docs where is says what the format for defining custom-columns is.
My Laravel site was working just fine yesterday but after a code-only update today I was seeing 502 errors on some pages
upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream, client:
While the solution was hard to find it was easy to implement.
Yesterday I thought I’d fixed my https links on Laravel running in Kubernetes - but I had a nagging feeling that I’d just followed some random blog posts and missed something …
Unfortunately what I had looked for was force laravel to use https
When what I really needed was Configuring Trusted Proxies