The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior

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That took me two hours to write, and I think it’s still crap. I planned to also write about the shady circumstances surrounding Hastings’ death (muuuurrrrrdddeeeeerrrrr most foul??). Am I now a conspiracy theorist? What is the Truth? And then the whole cyclical, brain-melting thing about perspective, and Trump’s comparing the US gov. to Putin, and Fake News, and reality all starts up again so I can’t write anything coherent. In a personally-revealing chapter of The Operators, Michael Hastings cites passages from Phillip Knightley's The First Casualty while describing the odd subculture of the war correspondent. The whole of the famous quote used in the title of Knightley's book goes: "In war, the first casualty is truth." Did McChrystal get what he deserved? Yes, but he deserved it by not having his staff proactively manage Hastings.

We’d been bombarded with hagiographic profiles and heroic narratives of almost all our military leaders…Here, I realized, was a chance to tell a different story, to capture what the men running the war actually said and did. What I’d been seeing and hearing was distinctly human: frustration, arrogance, getting smashed, letting off stress” (74). When designing an application to use microservices, there are a number of concepts to be familiar with. In Kubernetes, these are mainly the native application programming interface ( API) resource objects included in the core platform. Throughout this book, we will assume a foundational familiarity with the common Kubernetes resources and their functions. Jake came up to me. "We'll hunt you down and kill you if we don't like what you write," he said. "C. (a former British SAS assassin) will hunt you down and kill you." Thank you Rob for writing this. The sacrifices you and your brothers made and continue to make may be unappreciated by some, but to the rest, they inspire daily. Using Churchill’s words, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". Vivian may be mortified, but she isn’t going to take this lying down. She’s going to get to the bottom of that rumor—get into it, get under it, poke around in the corners. Find every last bit. Vivian wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be.OLM is primarily used for the installation and upgrade of Operators—this includes fetching and installing any dependencies for those Operators. Users interact with OLM via commands provided by the Operator SDK binary, the Kubernetes command-line tool ( kubectl), and declarative YAML. And so I believed (with eroding conviction) as we plodded through ten years of escalation, rife with lies and burgeoning evidence of atrocities. Civilians dying in record numbers, women still being killed and mutilated by cruel men, misguided by culture and religion. Marines video taping themselves pissing on the dead, others forming kill teams and targeting civilians, succumbing to the malaise and cruelty we were supposedly there to eliminate. Pat Tillman's death and the subsequent cover up. The over all lie that we've been making progress when in truth we've been propping up a corrupt government. Another Vietnam like experience (I studied the Vietnam war at length and have some familiarity with the many failures there).

Besides installing Operators, OLM can also make Operators that are currently installed discoverable to users on the cluster. This provides a catalog of already installed Operators available to cluster users. Also, by managing all the known Operators in the cluster, OLM can watch for conflicting Operator APIs and settings that would destabilize the cluster. Clearly, working with Operators involves more than simply reconciling a cluster state. The Operator Framework is an encompassing platform for Kubernetes developers and users to solve unique problems, which makes Kubernetes so flexible. When we were finally exhausted, my dad would say, “We can’t leave until one of us sinks twenty free throws in a row.” He would feed me—I’d get pissed if he made me move my feet even an inch off the line—and I’d shoot till I missed. Then he’d take over. The first time it took about twenty minutes for one of us to make twenty in a row. Then we went out for a steak dinner to celebrate. The next day my dad said, “We can leave when one of us gets twenty, but we need twenty-five for the steak.” Once we hit twenty-five, it went up to thirty, then thirty-five, forty. We got to where we had to make seventy free throws in a row for a dinner, and we almost always did it. I think my dad’s record was ninety in a row. Mine is still 105. We were making a lot of free throws. We began this chapter by examining some of the problems that arise when manually managing applications and clusters without Operators. This was done through the lens of a simple generic web application based on a couple of Pods and a Persistent Volume. The main difficulties in managing something such as this include the time and resources required to debug applications. This is especially important in cloud applications, where high availability ( HA) and consistent uptime are top priorities.Our simple web application Operator could provide insights about the performance of the Operand. Requests to the app would provide information about the current and historic load on the cluster. Additionally, since the Operator can identify failed states at this point, it could trigger an alert when the application is unhealthy. Many alerts would indicate a reliability issue that would gain the attention of an administrator.