Tags in IT are not new, they allow grouping of servers or applications and have been used for a while especially in virtualisation platforms such as VMware and public cloud compute platforms. However I have not seen anything to add tags to the host operating system, which could be queried Continue Reading
Homelab
Beginners Guide to git
From the wikipedia page… Git (/ɡɪt/)[7] is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.[8] It is designed for coordinating work among programmers, but it can be used to track changes in any set of files. I’m not a software developer by trade but I do dabble with website development, automation scripts and some useful little tools Continue Reading
Kubernetes cluster on a RPi (Part 3)
In the last part I deployed a very simple static web application, using the verification steps from the tutorial I was using. I combined this with some persistent NFS storage to preserve the data being served. I showed that this could be accessed from the cluster via curl from the Continue Reading
RPi – Cluster Case
As my collection of RPi4 k8s nodes has increased, I needed to bring a bit of order and tidiness to the setup. The best way to do this, I thought would be to house them in a stackable case. After a bit of searching I found this set from the Pi Continue Reading
Kubernetes cluster on a RPi (Part 2)
In the previous part of this post I stood up a basic 2 node k8s cluster using this excellent tutorial. I now need to learn how to use k8s and decide what I want and can use it for. The last part of the tutorial is around validation of the cluster, Continue Reading
RPi – POE HAT
I finally received my delivery of POE HATs for my RPi4’s today from CPC, and surprised at how easy they were to fit and get working. This is the first time I have used POE, and made sense to power my Pi bramble this way due to limited sockets where the Continue Reading
Kubernetes cluster on a RPi (part 1)
This post, and subsequent ones in the series are going to be a bit of a learning journey, as I am using it to document my learning around kubernetes. Obviously k8s (as the cool kids call it) has been around for a while, 6 year anniversary today, 11th June 2020, Continue Reading