Rémy Gaudey has more than 15 years of IT experience specializing in networking and telecommunications, IT infrastructure, and project management. He holds Prince2 Foundation, Prince2 Practitioner, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) credentials. Prior to dbi services, he was Principal Consultant at Oracle France, a Cisco trainer, and a project manager/business analyst for ground systems supporting European space programs (Ariane 5, Ariane 6, Vega, Soyuz). Rémy holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Oxford Brookes University, specializing in networking and high-speed communications.
In one of my previous blogs, I explained how to use a Tailscale sidecar container into an existing pod to expose it to your Tailnet. Even though this works fine, it can be tedious to set up and not very convenient for every use case and not scalable at all. Another solution is to use the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator. Rather…
The problem: I faced an issue today where one of my colleagues was struggling to remotely connect to a Windows server via RDP. He was using the default Remote Desktop app that comes standard with Windows 11 and everytime he’d connect, the application would hang at login. Something between 2 to 4 minutes, until he could finally type his password…
Tailscale is a mesh VPN (Virtual Private Network) service that streamlines connecting devices and services securely across different networks. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other. (source: https://tailscale.com/kb/1151/what-is-tailscale) I’ve been using Tailscale to connect my personal devices for a while. I have it…
I recently changed ISP, and I wanted to monitor its performance and make sure I get what I’m paying for. I initially started writing a bash script that I was running in a crontab, then writing the results in an md file. But that’s not very sexy. I wanted something graphical with a nice UI. It turns out that there…
dbi services makes free demo environments available to all, so that you can play with the YaK and deploy instances and components to Azure and AWS. The YaK Demo environment is hosted on one of dbi services AWS tenants and is automatically destroyed after 4 hours. The demo environment is not supposed to be used for production purpose (it’s just…
I bought a mini PC last year and I use it as a home lab to test things and play around.So I thought, why not install a RKE2 Kubernetes cluster and deploy my own YaK instance on it? Let’s dive-in. In this article, I will explain how I installed a single node Kubernetes cluster with SUSE RKE2 and deployed my…
Wednesday, April 2nd. Today is my first day at the KubeCon 2025 in London. It’s 8 AM, I’m in the lobby of my hotel and I can already hear “HAProxy”, “NGINX”, “Pipeline”, and “Kubernetes” here and there. There is no doubt, I am at the right place. When I walked to the Excel London, I didn’t know what to expect.…
Hello, dear tech enthusiasts and cloud aficionados! We’ve got some news that’s about to make your life —or your deployments, at least— a whole lot easier. Meet YaK 2.0, the latest game-changer in the world of automated multi-cloud PaaS deployment. After months of development, testing, troubleshooting, a fair share of meetings and way too much coffee, YaK is officially launching…
