I've been too busy and pulled away from my computer so I haven't made much progress on the local k8s front. I have attended and watched a number of webinars and videos, so things haven't been completely fallow. My last watched video of Anais is the namespace one, so I …
read moreAutomation - one step at a time
I'm automating bits and pieces and trying to be both centralized and more streamlined, but I'm still feeling my way a bit. I've written code to spin up VMs and instances, used Ansible to do moderately complex deploys, but now I want to get something similar going with my dev …
read moreDevOps day and more automation
I spent a bit of time attending a weird but wonderful conference on DevOps hosted in Animal Crossing of all things. While the surroundings seemed silly, the talks I stopped in at were serious and very well done. I also watched another few Anais videos, one on using a templating …
read moreSome troubles and some progress
I'm still punching along k8s wise, but my practical process has slowed a bit. I ran into a server side hiccup, and so that distracted me from delivering more on the netboot side, and I haven't gotten a chance to spin up a local vm to play either. I have …
read moreNetbooting step two - fiddling with NFS
My Raspberry Pi Netboot is getting stuck and I'm not sure why. At the point where I think it should be NFS mounting the file system, it stops, but not with a "can't mount root FS" panic, but it seems like it's in never never land. Now, maybe this is …
read moreNetbooting - the first steps
You'd think I don't have experience with netbooting, but you'd be wrong. I haven't done so in a number of years, so I'm a bit rusty, though. I haven't done so for an ARM based architecture yet, but not for long. I did get the remote server set up, and …
read moreWrinkle in the Raspberry pi
I've got two shiny new Raspberry Pi 4s, and I want to install a version of Kubernetes onto it. Easy, right? Umm, not so fast. I have lots of USB power adapters, but the Pi needs a USB-C, and most of mine are not that. I do have a couple …
read moreKubernetes basics
Okay, so I've been fiddling around long enough with k8s that I think I can explain a few basics. First, a lot of this is abstraction layers, to simplify how to deal with things. At the bottom, there are the things we want to run, or programs. Generally these are …
read moreNew day, new k8s install
After struggling for a while on my original install, I decided to bite the bullet and do a fresh install from scratch. For this rev, I used microk8s from the start, but also used the latest and greatest LTS from Ubuntu, instead of my original (so 20 instead of 16 …
read moreSwitch from mini to micro