Ditching My Reverse Proxy

I used to run an Nginx reverse proxy outside of my Kubernetes cluster on a 4th Dell Optiplex acting as a monolith server. I still use it for all things I would not put on Kubernetes (eg Minecraft servers) but I want to reduce the impact of this single point…

Running Laravel on K8S

Hello! I decided to try running cloudnativemauritius.com on Kubernetes. Since that's our whole thing, right? I expected this to be an easy 30 min job at most, and, as usual, it turned into much more. The website itself is a mix of Laravel and AlpineJS for the most part.…

Rebuilding My Homelab

Previously, I talked about the structure of my homelab, particularly with regards to the K3S cluster I was running on Pine64 SoPine compute modules, running impressive 1GHz quad-core ARM CPUs with 2GB DDR3. Unfortunately, that part of my homelab met a rather sudden dead-end a couple of weeks ago. I…

Twitter's Questionable Practices

I am a little bit concerned right now. Last week I created a new Twitter (known as X by few) account. I wanted a new account to be able to interact with people my age who are also in tech. No offense to the people who follow me on main,…

Cloud Native August Meetup

Hello! Cloud Native Mauritius, the local CNCF Chapter, had its first meetup on the 31st August 2024. With 20 of 25 RSVPs showing up, Ish (organiser) and I (also organiser) could not have hoped for a more successful first event. Planning Planning for this meetup started at the end of…