I’ve just finished converting a little Scala project of mine to Kotlin. Though the transition worked quite well, there was one thing that took me some time to figure out.

Yes, I am not only using a full-blown IDE. Especially when it comes to Perl, Bash or Python scripts, I do prefer the terminal and VIM! I would not say, I am a hard-core VIM user. I do love to have some nice plug-ins at my hand and have VIM behave similar to an IDE while keeping things lean.

For some days now, there is a new package in the debian repositories for Mysql. While the latest version installed was 5.7, the new one is a big jump to 8.0! Unfortunately a simple upgrade failed. It turns out one first has to run mysql_upgrade and after that do apt upgrade.

A couple of days ago I decided to bring myself up to speed again with kubernetes. But for a playground I needed a local cluster that I could break without harm or cost. Of course, there is minikube but it is rather limited. It is fine for a start, but when you want to have more control of resources, e.g. the number of nodes or the type of load balancers, you’ll quickly reach the limits of minikube.

I’ve already written multiple posts during my development of bcrm. I learned a lot new Linux skills. And of course I also improved my shell scripting skills in Bash. But, as much fun as it has been, the script is now at a development stage where I have to think about another technology.