’Twas the deploy before Christmas, when all through the office
Not a pipeline was failing, not even a bug.
The containers were built by the runner with care,
In hopes that green checkmarks soon would be there.
The devs were all nestled, eyes burning bright,
While Postgres ran queries all snug through the night.
And I in my hoodie, with coffee in hand,
Had just kicked off migrations like “this should go as planned…”
When out in the cluster there arose such a clatter,
I sprang to the logs to see what was the matter.
Away to kubectl I flew like a flash,
kubectl get pods and I gasped at the crash.
The moon on the YAML, so cruelly aglow,
Gave luster to objects in CrashLoopBackOff below.
When what to my weary eyes should appear,
But a brand-new Ingress and a cert-manager deer.
With a little old operator, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment: it’s GitOps’ old trick.
More rapid than eagles the webhooks they came,
And it whistled and shouted and called them by name:
“Now Django! Now Gunicorn! Now Celery, hurry!
On Redis! On Nginx! No time to be blurry!
To the top of the node pool! To the edge of the firewall!
Now roll out! roll out! roll out!
As requests that before the load balancer fly,
When they meet with an outage, they spin and retry
So up to the Service the packets they flew,
With headers and cookies and CSRF too!
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the page
The clickity-clack of a React built in rage.
As I drew in my breath and was turning around,
HTMX swapped the div with barely a sound.
It was dressed all in Tailwind, from head to toe,
And its DOM was all tidy—no extra “hello.”
A bundle of modules it had flung on its back,
And it looked like a vendor just opening a pack.
The design how it twinkled! JS console how merry!
Its warnings were minor, not scary, not hairy.
Its droll little tooltips were perfectly placed,
And the lint on its beard had been neatly erased.
It spoke not a word, but went straight to its work,
Fixed CORS and SameSite (no need to be a jerk),
Then laying a finger aside of its nose,
It patched my .env and up prod it rose.
It sprang to the cluster, to its team gave a Slack message,
And away they all scaled like a well-tuned missile.
But I heard it exclaim, ere it rolled out of sight:
“Happy Christmas to all and to all, and an outage free night!”
