My thoughts and guides concerning my foray into creating my own private cloud/homelab
At the risk of sounding like every YouTuber out there who wants you to click the “Subscribe” button right now, I really believe everyone who cares about Linux should start learning about Bootc. When looking at the future of Linux and what that could look like there’s already a lot of talk of immutable distos like SteamOS, Fedora Silverblue, or NixOS being the future.
Last weekend I was able to attend my first Ubuntu Summit in Den Haag, Netherlands! I was kindly invited to represent the Late Night Linux family of podcasts as one of the hosts of the Hybrid Cloud Show . I was very excited as this means I could finally get to meet one of my co-hosts in person! Canonical paid for my flight and hotel and I was off to meet old friends as well as new ones. This was my…
The Problem
If you’re crazy like me and are running a Kubernetes cluster in your home then chances are you also have other computers running other services. In the past, I would have my storage server run Nginx for any internal services (meaning LAN only) and then used an ingress controller like Traefik or Nginx to serve traffic from inside my cluster to the internet. Recently, I thought that it might be…
For Christmas I bought myself a Lenovo Yoga 9i. This lovely 14 inch laptop had the 3 features I was most looking for: touch screen, light weight enough to use as a tablet, and pretty good support for Linux. That last one is tough because unless you’re buying a specific model from a manufacturer like System76 that’s not guaranteed. Lenovo has a history of good support for Linux and even offers some…
What is Longhorn? So if you have a Kubernetes cluster, chances are you want to use the local storage on your nodes in a pool to run your cluster with. In my opinion, the only real option for this kind of setup is Longhorn . I’ve been using Longhorn for about a year and when I first installed it, I did it quickly and easily though the Rancher interface. Between the reliability of the storage and…
Why Loki?
When you can’t self host
Howdy! In this month’s post I wanted to talk about Rancher. I know there are already a lot of guides on this so I wanted to explain not only how to install Rancher but also what it is and why you would want to use this and when you wouldn’t.
Why?