A long time ago (like 2 years) I had installed node exporter, prometheus, and grafana on my K3S cluster. This was useful to visualise resource usage in all my nodes, and served as a constant reminder of how underpowered the control plane was. With my new cluster having run for…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…