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A tale of GKE, GCP, and product catalogue search
A tale of GKE, GCP, and product catalogue search

SRC Innovations has successfully run a Product Catalogue Search Engine as a SaaS solution for a number of years now. It serves a range of Australian clients, serving search traffic using a mix of modern ML as well as classical AI methods. I’d attribute part of our success to our use of the Google Cloud […]

8 mins
Why can’t I delete my Kubernetes thing?
Why can’t I delete my Kubernetes thing?

aka: Why are Kubernetes finalizers making my life hard? Are any of your pods stuck in a Terminating state? And they don’t seem to ever disappear? Or even one of your PersistentVolumeClaims just refuses to become… “unclaimed” and deleted? Did Prometheus wake you to complain about the pod not being in an acceptable state? The […]

7 mins
Single Sign On (SSO)
Single sign on (SSO) with AWS Cognito’s hosted UI

This article guides on setting up Single Sign-On (SSO) with AWS Cognito's Hosted UI, emphasising its integration with SAML Identity Providers. It outlines steps for enabling SSO in AWS Console, configuring identity providers, and customising the hosted UI.

9 mins
Changing Kubernetes PVC storage class and downsizing them at the same time
Changing Kubernetes PVC storage class and downsizing them at the same time

Ever realised too late that you’ve provisioned an SSD for a pod when you didn’t need it? Or that your drive of 400gb is only 40gb full, and in hindsight, never going to exceed ~60gb? This blog article is for you! It shows how to downsize a PVC AND change the storage class at the […]

20 mins