All quiet? Kind of!
Its been very quiet on the project front, at least what I can report on here. The increasing power bills have seen my enterprise servers go into a perpetual “cold and dark” condition. All primary functions are running on the pair of RPi4’s and a single RPi3. There is a big project a foot. I […]
Home Lab Cloud – Different host OS
Having succeeded in getting a small K8s cluster running I then considered the fact that I had to use a specific version of the packages and a specific version of Docker. Could I upgrade to the latest releases? First I cloned the working machines, then attempted the upgrade, and broke everything. That is pretty damn […]
Home Lab Cloud – Kubernetes install
Part 1 This subject has proven rather heavy. There are plenty of places on the net to describe what Kubernetes is. I get that. Now if I go to the home of Kubernetes at https://kubernetes.io/ then I have an absolute load of information about installing, managing and,,,, well, I didn’t really get off of the […]
Home Lab Cloud – Docker
So my quest brings me to understanding “Docker”, running on Linux. What is Docker? Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.[5] The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine.[6] So I will cut a long story short. Taking a standard installation of Linux server, in […]
Home Lab Cloud – Exploring Kubernetes
Its the thing of the moment, so they say. Kubernetes. What is it? According to Wikipedia it is – Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains the project. Digging deeper – Kubernetes defines a set of […]
Home Lab Cloud – The move to Proxmox
I want to start experimenting with building a home lab cluster of servers. Clearly buying loads of servers is not a practical solution here as I don’t need that level of performance, nor have the space or the power budget. Instead I look to Virtualisation. I have run virtual servers before and this website was […]