About

Hello, I’m Chris Wiggins, I’m a site reliability engineer (SRE)/devops engineer/platform engineer/infrastructure engineer/WhateverNewTermIsCool engineer.

I work in the tech industry to help improve the lives of developers, end-users, and whomever wants to improvement their technology.

Facts (and some opinions)

  • Vim is my editor of choice, even as a full blown IDE.
  • Open-source runs the world and is awesome, everyone’s life would be much worse without it.
  • Linux > Windows (except maybe Active Directory).

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Public “clouds” (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure)
  • Linux (awk, grep, sed, tmux, bash, etc.)
  • Programming Languages
    • Python
    • Groovy
    • Golang
  • CI/CD Systems
    • Jenkins
    • Gitlab CI
    • Github Actions
    • Circleci
    • Drone CI
  • Many other things I forgot to list or have learned since I updated this page.

Hobbies

  • Technology
  • Bicycling
  • Outdoors
  • Philosophy

Contact

  • Email: me at cwiggs.com

2019 Oregon trip

 Posted on July 7, 2019  |  Chris Wiggins

We just got done with a trip to Oregon and it was beautiful. Oddly enough it only rained a tiny bit at the end of the trip. Albany Our first stop was in Albany, OR to get some pizza at a local place called ciddici’s. There are only 2 locations and they are both in Albany. The pizza here is interesting for 2 reasons: One, the crust is fairly crispy, but it compliments the rest of the pizza well. [Read More]
travel  oregon  life 

k3s on GCP's always free tier

 Posted on June 19, 2019  |  Chris Wiggins

k3s I’ve been working with Kubernetes a lot at work and it’s very interesting. Recently I heard of k3s by the people over at Rancher. It’s introduced as a “lightweight kubernetes”, the binary is less than 40MB, and only 512MB of ram to run. I’ve been wanting to test them out but my last Raspberry Pi 3 just died a few weeks ago. That’s where GCP comes in. GCP always free tier Google Cloud platform offers an always free tier and is one of the few cloud providers that offers compute (or VM) for free. [Read More]
blog  challege  30days  k8s  k3s  gcp  cloud  tech 

I Am Mother

Androids, AI, Robots

 Posted on June 18, 2019  |  Chris Wiggins

We Don’t Trust Robots I just got done watching the new netflix movie I Am Mother. While was watching it I noticed my SO frequently saying that she did not trust the “mother” robot. Sure the movie was setup a bit to make you think something fishy was going on, but it made me think: In general people don’t trust robots. Maybe it’s the Uncanny Valley or maybe it’s all the media we’ve been consuming for decades that tell us not to trust robots? [Read More]
blog  challege  30days  AI  ethics 

Setup site with Gitlab Hugo and Netlify

 Posted on June 17, 2019  |  Chris Wiggins

This site This site is setup using hugo and being stored at Gitlab, and then hosted using netlify. The guide I used is here, it’s an interesting read. Advantages Infrastructure The cool thing about this setup is there is no infrastructure that you have to manage. Before this iteration of my site I had it hosted on a VM at GCP and used grav. Thanks to the always-free tier of GCP I didn’t pay anything, but I still had to manage the VM. [Read More]
blog  site  iac