A little maintenance task

As I mentioned in my previous post, I ran into what I believe are some GPU issues with my Dell 7510. So, like any self-respecting nerd (is that an oxymoron?), I ordered a replacement part from parts-people.com and got to work. Prep Work As with most things these days, you can almost always find some… Continue reading A little maintenance task

Tech Tip – Interacting with ETCD in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2

Since cycling my cluster nodes is a “fire script and wait” operation, I kicked one off today. I ended up running into an issue that required me to dig a bit into ETCD in RKE2, and could not find direct help, so this is as much my own reference as it is a guide for… Continue reading Tech Tip – Interacting with ETCD in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2

What’s in a home lab?

A colleague asked today about my home lab configuration, and I came to the realization that I have never published a good inventory of the different software and hardware that I run as part of my home lab / home automation setup. While I have documented bits and pieces, I never pushed a full update.… Continue reading What’s in a home lab?

Tech Tip – You should probably lock that up…

I have been running in to some odd issues with ArgoCD not updating some of my charts, despite the Git repository having an updated chart version. As it turns out, my configuration and lack of Chart.lock files seems to have been contributing to this inconsistency. My GitOps Setup I have a few repositories that I… Continue reading Tech Tip – You should probably lock that up…