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  • Kubernetes DR Part 2: Building infrastructure applicationsets for my clusters.

    Having installed a new cluster including getting ArgoCD to run, it’s time to think about deploying some applications. From earlier, I have simple applications that are very much tailored to running on my already existing cluster: Setting up a DR cluster, I need to make my DR cluster creating similar applications with some properties changed.…

  • Setting up a second DR cluster part 1 – bootstrap script.

    My primary cluster was installed manually. While I have retroactively created some scripts and put it in my bootstrap repository, it had never been tested end-to-end. Creating a DR cluster (still only one node) was a perfect opportunity to test that. The goal of the bootstrap repo/script is to have scripted procedure to install the…

  • A real incident: Longhorn recovery

    Running Longhorn with multiple replicas over long distance isn’t exactly recommended. Longhorn works best on a local network, where network in general is stable and you don’t lose connectivity between the nodes so often. I ignored this for a while, because I wanted to test a dual-node longhorn setup, but in the end I paid…

  • Longhorn – a Kubernetes-native filesystem

    The other day, I took a look at Longhorn again. I briefly looked at it earlier, as a way to get volumes that are writeable from more than one node. I tossed it away then, because I mistook it for nothing more than a glorified NFS server. I was quite wrong. At the time of…

  • RIP Bitnami…and some reflections on convencience vs simplicity

    Bitnami, which was once regard as a readily available and reliable source of containers and helm chart, was recently bought by Broadcom. Broadcom has made the decision to host their containers and Helm chart behind a subscription paywall, and no longer provide a helm chart repository or their full docker image catalog for free. While…

  • The road to enterprise at home: Crafting a proper DR strategy.

    In my previous post I did a proof of concept of recreating my infrastructure at a secondary node. While it worked, it was highly manual, and it took some downtime until I actually got around to do it. A proper DR solution, however, should be pre-made, ready to be enacted. It can still be partly…

  • The road to enterprise at home: A DR-test!

    I’ve had some issues with my kubernetes-node, basically a few random crashes. A bit inconvenient as it’s summer-time. As I am writing this, I am at our cabin and the kubernetes-node is down. But wait a minute? Doesn’t the blog run on kubernetes? Yes, it does. But I do have backup. A while back, I…

  • Single Signon for your home services with Keycloak

    Having played around for a couple of months, I have a various bunch of services running in my cluster, which all needs some form of authentication. Some doesn’t even support authentication in itself, but could use some form of login in front of it. I am using traefik for reverse proxy, and it’s always possible…

  • Summing it up! Setting up a web site in 10 minutes.

    During the previous months, I have created a lot of infrastructure in Kubernetes. This is stuff that just makes things work if I just configure things correctly. So, I thought I should just go and deploy a simple service, Supermario, that lives on https://github.com/GuopingJia/k8s-games/tree/main/super-mario I like to run a all my things in a namespace,…

  • Kubernetes for beginners: Storage

    After my blog post about Kubernetes for geeks: Creating your own Kubernetes Operator, it is time for a lighter and more basic topic: storage. My beginner series wouldn’t be complete without it, so here goes! Kubernetes is made for a lot of various environments: cloud, self-hosted, distributed and not-too-distributed. You need to be able to…