Reduce SD Card Wear AND Get More RAM on your Raspberry Pi
How you can reduce SD card wear from system logging and increase perceived memory capacity at the same time on your Raspberry Pi with zram-config
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Kubernetes, Raspberry Pi, Self-hosting
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RSA keys are not deprecated; SHA-1 signature scheme is!
Debugging "send_pubkey_test: no mutual signature algorithm" errors and demystifying the deprecation of "ssh-rsa" signature scheme in OpenSSH 8.8
Let's Encrypt and DNS over TLS Hell on Android
Issues with Android's Private DNS over TLS via Adguard or PiHole using Let's Encrypt TLS Certificates after the recent Root Certificate expiry.
Restoring WhatsApp media exif dates and fixing duplicates
How I restored photo exif dates, video created dates and deleted duplicates in my WhatsApp media for archival to free up space on my devices.
Auto-renew TLS Certificates with cert-manager
Deploy and configure cert-manager to automatically renew and forget about TLS certificates in your Kubernetes cluster, Raspberry Pi or not.
Deploy Traefik on Kubernetes with Wildcard TLS Certs
How to painlessly deploy and configure Traefik v2 on Kubernetes as the Ingress Controller with automated Let's Encrypt ACME wildcard TLS certs.
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers: Why I Chose Traefik
First of a 2-part series on my experience with Traefik for the past 3 years. Part 2 will focus on how you can deploy it on your Kubernetes cluster.
I Hosted My Valheim Dedicated Server with Docker on a Rock Pi X
I set out on a voyage to find a way to self-host a dedicated server at home on the cheapest x86 single-board computer with the Raspberry Pi form factor.
Why I sold my Raspberry Pi 4 for a Rock Pi 4
My experience of using a Raspberry Pi 4 for 6 months before selling it below market for the Rock Pi 4, and why you shouldn't buy a Raspberry Pi 4 today.
Extend The Lifespan of Your Raspberry Pi's SD Card with log2ram
Log2ram is a software that redirects logs to the memory instead of the SD Card. Here's how I used it to extend my SD Card's lifespan in my Raspberry Pi.
How to Squeeze 50% More Memory Out of Your Raspberry Pi with zram
I demonstrate how you can use zram to increase the available memory of your Raspberry Pi by more than 50% with negligible performance impact.
My Kubernetes Dashboard and How To Deploy Yours
My experiences with the Kubernetes Dashboard and a step-by-step tutorial on how you can deploy your own instance on your Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster.
Run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi cluster with k3s
Some fun facts about Kubernetes that you probably didn't know, caveats when running it on Raspberry Pi, and how you can set up your own cluster with k3s.
Graduating from Docker to Docker Swarm
How Docker Swarm introduced me to distributed container orchestration and established the foundations for Kubernetes.
How I Started Using Docker and Why You Should Too
I outline my voyage and pains through which I found Docker and I aim to convince just one person reading this, that Docker is worth learning and using.