IRC has historically been one of the most important chat programs in my life. It’s how I met my husband, how I found jobs in the early stages of my career, how I get help with weird Linux arcana that nobody else can really fix, and it’s where I socialize with the Internet Illuminati. I use it every day and main reason I use tmux is to attach to that one session with my IRC client in it.

However, there’s a problem with this setup: it’s tied to one physical computer. If that physical computer dies, I lose easy access to all my IRC logs.

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Seeing as there’s realistically not many other options for this (and I already have a Kubernetes cluster), I decided to move my IRC client into a VM on top of Kubernetes.