In your deployments locally or through Docker, you will most definitely be using a .env file for all your secrets - API keys, database credentials, and the like. In the world of Kubernetes, nothing is as simple as just a .env file. In fact, configuration of your deployments will be…
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…