My Hermes backup said DONE, but a tar exclude dropped every database
My agent backup script printed DONE and uploaded 346 MB. The first restore showed the databases were never in the archive. One tar exclude did it.
Devops
TIL: GNU tar ignores --exclude patterns with a trailing slash
GNU tar skips an --exclude pattern that ends in a slash and packs the directory anyway. Drop the slash. macOS bsdtar does match it, so test where the backup runs.
My CI/CD pipeline: Husky hooks, GitHub Actions, Trivy and Vercel
Git push to production in about 11 minutes: Husky checks, tests on Node 18, 20 and 22, Trivy blocking CRITICAL and HIGH, Claude PR review, then a Vercel deploy.
Replacing OpenLens: why I kept K9s, Headlamp, and Kubenav
OpenLens is no longer maintained. I tested 13 Kubernetes dashboards and kept three: K9s, Headlamp, and Kubenav.
