u/oschvr

Family man, 2 small kids, living in Brussel, BE. I don’t really see myself driving more than 3-4 times a week and no more than 1hr on those days.

I would occasionally do a short road trip (2-3 days) inside Europe but that would be every 6 to 12 months.

Im not interested in speed or anything special, im even decided on a second hand car. And this would be my first EV

The problem is that there are many models with different settings that I don’t really understand or recognise.

Pure, Pro, Pro Performance etc

What would you do in my case ? Looking for suggestions or advice from owners

no commercial promotion as I'm not getting paid for this, It's a gift for the community. One I'm using

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I keep hearing that EU cloud sovereignty is at risk, but I don't see many people actually doing something about it.

If you're running Kubernetes and curious about starting your EU cloud journey, or looking to move away from your current provider, this might be useful.

I built and open-sourced a project that provisions the world's leading container orchestrator (Kubernetes) on an EU cloud provider, using Infrastructure as Code. From zero to running kubectl commands in about an hour.

https://movetoeu.cloud/

And for the ones curious about how it actually looks like: Here it is, fully Open Source

https://github.com/oschvr/movetoeu.cloud-infra

I guess this is more of a rant than anything.

As the title says, I failed the first attempt for the practical exam in Anderlecht today, after waiting for 3+ months, and I'm quite certain that the monitor knew he was going to fail me even before starting.

Context: M 35y/o, I've driven for the last ~20y of my life.

I know how a vehicle operates
I am fully aware of the universally accepted laws of mobility (I've driven in many countries)
I am usually the designated driver, and I have even taught some people how to drive.

I recently moved to Belgium, and of course, I have a driving licence, It's official and from Mexico, but according to Belgian law, it's not valid here.

So I am FORCED by the system to go through the ENTIRE process again

- I started studying in English, but the first attempt at the Theory exam, the "English module" was not working, so I had to do it in French, failed

- I failed the next time, and then I had to do a Theory course 3 days at night.

- I had to do a second appointment for the first aid course because the first one got cancelled last minute (I was already there)

- I had to pay €1200 for 14h of practice course and hear this out... In the first session, the instructor fell asleep for 30 min

- Getting an appointment for the practical exam is conditional on passing the perception risk exam. But once you do, you realise the appointments are at least 3 months into the future.

- UNLESS you go to an autoecole and pay them for an appointment. If they have one...

- And the worst of the worst, The practical exam day
- My instructor arrived late
- Once there, my instructor was making stupid remarks about how Trump is right and Mexico will be annexed to the US eventually
- The exam monitor also late
- They didn't even look at me
- They wouldn't stop talking while I was driving
- Once the exam was over, the monitor said I failed not because I didn't know how to drive, but because I didn't stop at least 5 seconds in a stop sing where I stopped briefly.

I feel furiously frustrated. I've been waiting for this day for a while now, and I really got the sense that these people are holding on their small pedestal of power to make themselves feel better.

My family (kids, wife) is expecting me to drive them around sometimes, and I feel awful that I simply can't do it, not because I am incapable. But because someone else didn't feel like I should at the time.

Now I need to fight for a new appointment and wait for them to "be in a good mood" so I can get this over with.

What do you think I should do? (sorry for the long post)

A bit specific for cloud infrastructure providers but my EU company has most of it applications hosted on Amazon AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service. It’s been working well.

Yesterday the CEO announced that any US based provider is to be replaced by the next best EU based alternative. I fully agree and support this but I want to make it as seamless as possible

Of course that applies to me and my team, the DevOps/Cloud Infra.

I will be the responsible of the migration project so I started looking at OVH and Scaleway for their managed solutions

Anyone on “the same boat”? Anyone else that did this? Would you care to share what was your experience?

Thank you !

I know very well Terraform, Linux, Git, Kubernetes but obviously my income is capped to the amount of hours I work.

How, other than courses, would you productize this knowledge?

Thanks

Im not promoting myself her, its more of a request for guidance: As title says, I’m looking to do some project based work, aside from my main job which is pretty chill nowadays

In a Sr DevOps engineer (Platform/SRE) specialised in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform & Linux

Based in Belgium

Im not promoting myself her, its more of a request for guidance: As title says, I’m looking to do some project based work, aside from my main job which is pretty chill nowadays

In a Sr DevOps engineer (Platform/SRE) specialised in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform & Linux

Based in Belgium