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FireChat for protests – "Download this app, we are going to the protest"

Hi HN,Building on the concept popularized by FireChat, I'm working on "Road", a mesh network communication app tailored for protests. While the basic premise remains similar—enabling communication without reliance on internet services— "Road" focuses on enhancing security and organizational features crucial for peaceful protest scenarios.I'm currently grappling with several technical and...

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Ask HN: Building a GoFundMe for Legal and Medical Funds for Protesters

Hi HN community,I'm exploring the idea of creating a crowdfunding platform specifically designed to support protesters with legal and medical funds. This platform would focus on transparency, privacy, and partnerships with legal and medical professionals to ensure protesters are supported without compromising their safety.The goal is to provide a reliable and secure way to fund legal defenses...

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Ask HN: Exploring a "Rate My Manager" Platform for the Tech Industry

Hello HN community,I'm considering developing a "Rate My Manager" website for the tech industry, akin to RateMyProfessors for academia. The goal is to provide insights into managerial behaviors and practices, especially those that impact employee well-being but often fly under the radar of HR investigations.Context: In many tech companies, there's a gap in understanding how managers' actions,...

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This is quite interesting. How did you navigate containerizing your app, creating deployment files, etc? What was your dev cycle like?
I'd love to learn more about how you first built an app for K8s. Like did you have an existing app you were porting to K8s or what was the app dev cycle looked like?
This is great, thanks for a detailed answer on this! Few questions:

1) When you say built automation to spin up clusters in AKS, what did you use and what entry point you used to spin up those cluster? E.g: Did you have a terraform template that was used through cli?

2) How were the Helm files deployed? Did you have a CD pipeline that deployed helm on every code commit?

3) When you said iterating on the app directly on AKS, what was the iteration? Is the scope, you had an existing app and you were iteratively porting the code base?

On a meta level, how many of your experience you and your team preferred a UI/UX experience for? For creating helm charts, did you feel like a portal experience would have made it easier or did existing documentation work for you? What other dev cycle you and your team wanted guidance from AKS portal?

Ask HN: How do you go about starting to develop an application for Kubernetes?

I'm curious, what's the typical lifecycle of a developer in the space of K8s?Imagine this scenario: Your manager said "hey we are taking a bet on Kubernetes, now go figure out how to run our apps there."Do you:1) Start by setting up local dev environment, use docker locally, build manifest/helm files and test them in a local minikube, and finally think about now moving your code from local dev...

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Ask HN: How do you pick your Kubernetes cloud provider? Azure vs. GCP vs. AWS?

Hey HN, I'd love your experience on how you pick which cloud provider to go with for your Kubernetes needs?Specifically, what do you look for when you're on the online portal playing around with the service? Like the Azure/AWS online console for example.Specifically, what do you like about the current online portal you use, what options do they give you, and what are things you hate in the...

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