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…

Setting up Minio for Backups

It's about time that I have a solid backup solution for my Kubernetes cluster, as well as the other services I run around here. It will also reduce my reliance on this exact cluster because currently all data is stored in Longhorn and isn't the most practical to get out.…

DevCon 2024

Yay, DevCon! The go-to event for geeks, nerds and anyone under the IT enthusiast spectrum in Mauritius. A quick pre-face. I attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in March earlier this year and, while that was definitely an experience in of itself, DevCon holds a special place in my heart because of how…