2019: My personal highlights for the year

2019 was a great year! I met some awesome people from Civo, Traefik, Rancher, OpenFaas, Docker, Elastic, AWS and the list goes on.

Thank you to everyone of you that helped me during this year, to the ones inspired me, all the great motivation, support and shout outs! There's so many people to thank, even for the people that is not mentioned, if you ever interacted with me, helped me or supported me, thank you to each and everyone of you!

Below is a list of some of my personal highlights:

Number of Blogposts per Website:

• 83 Posts on ruan.dev
• 54 Posts on sysadmins.co.za
• 7 Posts on medium.com
• 6 Posts on dev.to
• 1 Post on devconnected.com
• 1 Post on civo.com

Learnings

• You cannot be good at everything
• You need to switch off every now and then
• Work / Life balance is important
• A hobby other than work does wonders to help switch off every now and then

Contributions on Github

Contributions for 2019:

Most Starred Github Repository:

Most Starred Gist:

Analytics

Some analytics for my blog posts:

ruan.dev

Analytics for ruan.dev:

Top 10 Most Viewed Pages:

Most Viewed by Country:

sysadmins.co.za

Analytics for sysadmins.co.za:

Top 10 Most Viewed Pages:

Most Viewed by Country:

Authors on Blogposts:

A list of places where I blog on:

• devconnected.com
• faun.dev
• medium.com
• civo.com
• dev.to
• blog.pistack.co.za
• sysadmins.co.za
• ruan.dev
• ruan.dev

Proud Moments

Some of my proud moments on Twitter:

2019.06.11 - Scaleway Tweet on Kapsule

Thanks @ruanbekker for your series of blogposts about Scaleway Kapsule. ;) https://t.co/4IGUuXneA7

— Scaleway (@Scaleway) June 11, 2019

2019.06.11 - Traefik Tweet on Kubernetes

🎉 Check out this great community post by @ruanbekker! "Setup Traefik as an Ingress Controller on #Kubernetes" Thanks, Ruan! 🤗https://t.co/BHVmI46gmx #traefik pic.twitter.com/9N8NOkZNrk

— Traefik (@traefik) June 11, 2019

2019.07.13 - Mention from OpenFaas on VSCode Demo

Run everything in your browser with VSCode! https://t.co/ZasPSfibI8

— OpenFaaS (@openfaas) July 13, 2019

2019.07.14 - Elasticsearch Tweet from Devconnected

Are you curious about how to setup a complete Elasticsearch (@elastic) cluster on Ubuntu 18.04?

System Development Engineer @ruanbekker wrote an entire guide about it, and you should read it!https://t.co/fyoulehOce#elasticsearch #devops #opensource pic.twitter.com/2uRrqjXDxC

— devconnected.com (@devconnectedcom) July 15, 2019

2019.08.14 - Rancher's Tweet on my Rpi K3s Blogpost

'Running Kubernetes (K3S) on RaspberryPi 4' by @ruanbekker #kubernetes #k3s #RaspberryPi #arm https://t.co/sukR1FwyG8

— Rancher Labs (@Rancher_Labs) August 13, 2019

2019.08.19 - Civo Learn Guide

Learn guide: Set up a 3 node @Docker swarm on Ubuntu. Guide by @ruanbekker https://t.co/QxOxv6eRAy pic.twitter.com/NgzSlprE06

— Civo Cloud (@CivoCloud) August 19, 2019

I have to say, this one made intuitively more sense to me than a lot of containerisation articles! And I'm not just saying that because I hit publish on it :D

— Kai (@KaiPMDH) August 20, 2019

2019.10.09 - Civo Marketplace MongoDB

• https://github.com/civo/kubernetes-marketplace/pull/8

Thank you very much @ruanbekker for adding @MongoDB to our open source Kubernetes marketplace! https://t.co/04Na1XFEtW #kubernetes #k8s #k3s #KUBE100 #mongodb pic.twitter.com/FMi4mMPn3A

— Civo Cloud (@CivoCloud) October 9, 2019

2019.10.23 - Civo Marketplace Jenkins

• https://github.com/civo/kubernetes-marketplace/pull/12

Thanks to @ruanbekker for submitting @jenkinsci to our open Kubernetes Marketplace running on the world's first managed k3s service! #jenkins #k3s #opensource #kubernetes pic.twitter.com/aW1FVKOqfY

— Civo Cloud (@CivoCloud) October 23, 2019

2019.11.05 - Traefik Swag

We are honored to send that! Thanks for being an amazing community member, and writing awesome posts!! 🎁#traefik

— Traefik (@traefik) November 5, 2019

2019.11.14 - Mentions on Civo Blog for KUBE100

New blog! #KUBE100: The Story So Far.

Detailing our journey launching the world's first managed k3s service!

👉https://t.co/p7SyhcMXPb#k8s #kubernetes #k3s

— Civo Cloud (@CivoCloud) November 14, 2019

Some proud moments from mentions on blog posts:

2019.08.06 - VPNCloud Peer to Peer Docs

• https://vpncloud.ddswd.de/docs/

2019.08.06 - MarkHeath Blog Post Mention

• https://markheath.net/post/exploring-elasticsearch-with-docker

2019.08.08 - Civo Docker Swarm Blogpost

• https://www.civo.com/learn/setup-a-3-node-docker-swarm

2019.08.13 - Raspberry Pi Post (teamserverless)

• https://github.com/teamserverless/k8s-on-raspbian/pull/20

2019.10.11 - Serverless Email - Migration OpenFaas Blog post:

• https://serverless.email/issues/122

Certifications:

MongoDB Basics:

MongoDB Cluster Administration:

Thank You

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