New repository - PlantUML Kubernetes icons/sprites
Update 2019-11: This work has been integrated into the PlantUML standard library 🎉🎉 New repository with sprites for Kubernetes in PlantUML projects. These sprites have been generated using the PlantUML encodesprite command. See http://plantuml.com/sprite. The source of the images is the kubernetes-icons repository at https://github.com/octo-technology/kubernetes-icons. This repository inherits the Apache license from there. See LICENSE. Example @startuml !include ../resource/k8s-sprites-unlabeled-25pct.iuml package "Infrastructure" { component "<$master>\nmaster" as master component "<$etcd>\netcd" as etcd component "<$node>\nnode" as node } Sprites References https://github.
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Wide open nginx CORS configuration
CORS is a W3C working standard that currently has decent (but inconsistent) implementions in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. I use it primarily to test PhoneGap apps in regular browsers instead of testing the code in simulators. PhoneGap apps can skip the usual origin checks via configuration, but running a PhoneGap app takes more setup - which make it harder for designers to work with the app. Running apps in simulators or on actual devices also takes al lot more time that just reloading a browser and this annoys me.
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Documentation tooling
Requirements for tools and documentation Open source tooling Editable with vim, emacs, etc Suitable for version control Suitable for scripting Types of documentation Component diagrams Preferred tool : PlantUML Note PlantUML requires graphviz to be installed to generate component diagrams. # Command line PLANTUML=~/Downloads/plantuml.jar java -jar $PLANTUML -v -tpng src/k8s-runtime.uml -o ../out/ @startuml title Kubernetes skinparam componentStyle uml2 package "Development" { component Developer component [Code\nVCS] as VCS component CI component CD } package "External Services" { component MQ component DB } package "Kubernetes Cluster" { component "Nodes/Pods/Containers" as Service component [Controller] as Controller } package Artifacts { component [Container Registry] as Registry component [Config VCS] as Config } package "External Network" { component [User] as WebBrowser } Developer -l-> VCS : commit VCS -d-> CI : test & build CI -r-> CD CI -d-> Registry : upload image CD -r-> Controller : deploy WebBrowser -u-> Service Service -u-> MQ Service -u-> DB Controller -r-> Registry : fetch Controller -d-> Config : fetch Controller -l-> Service : deploy @enduml Useful parameters for Component Diagrams
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