Tag: TIL

Backoff limit per index

Posted: 2025-05-13 | Tags: kubernetes, TIL

Kubernetes v1.33 is coming with Backoff limit per index. Backoff limWHAT? Ideally, in kubernetes your workload should tolerate transient failures and continue running. By transient failures I mean network congestions, nodes with problems etc. To achieve failure tolerance in a Kubernetes Job, you can set the spec.backoffLimit field. This field specifies the total number of tolerated failures. Why should there be a limit? Well, you don’t want cascade failures, for example. Read more...

Hugo: filter post by tag

Posted: 2025-04-13 | Tags: hugo, TIL

I wanted to stop showing in the frontpage of this blog powered by (Hugo) the posts tagged as “TIL” or “IWL”. My theme template is {{ $blogPages := where .Site.RegularPages.ByDate.Reverse ".Type" "in" .Site.Params.mainSections }} I tried with “intersect” and “where” but it did not work, not sure if it is because my Hugo version is old but, anyway, I was too lazy to upgrade Hugo (and adapt all templates, breaking changes, etc) so this simple code made my day: Read more...