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Running macOS Builds from Tekton· 7 posts

Run macOS builds from Tekton on disposable VMs. Follow the integration from private-cluster access to failure recovery and faster startup, including who owns cleanup after Tekton stops waiting.

  1. Connecting a Mac build host to a private EKS cluster
  2. Running macOS builds from Tekton with a CustomRun
  3. Passing source and artifacts between Tekton and a macOS VM
  4. Tracking a macOS build until its VM is deleted
  5. Recovering macOS builds when the controller or agent stops.
  6. Starting macOS builds in seconds instead of half a minute
  7. Should you run macOS jobs from Tekton?

Pod Startup Forensics· 7 posts

A 7-part series diagnosing what actually makes Kubernetes pod startup slow, going past kubectl events and kubelet SLI metrics to trace which pod, which phase, and why.

  1. Pod Startup Forensics: The Problem
  2. Pod Startup Forensics: The Tooling Gap
  3. Pod Startup Forensics: Joining Lifecycle Events to Syscall Evidence
  4. Pod Startup Forensics: The Architecture
  5. Pod Startup Forensics: Surviving Deletion
  6. Pod Startup Forensics: Closing the Gap
  7. Pod Startup Forensics: Closure and What's Next