Speed. I.. am.. Speed.

“One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast. A little brekie could be good for me….”

My quest for speed lead to using 1TB of data every day…

Going Banana

That’s right… just one banana. I have been looking to upgrade the Raspberry PI 3 that has been operating as home lab’s reverse proxy. While it would have been more familiar to find another Raspberry Pi 4 to use, their availability is, well, terrible. I found a workable, potentially more appropriate, solution in the Banana… Continue reading Going Banana

A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…

In the Home Lab, things were going good. Perhaps a little too good. A bonehead mistake on my part and hardware failure combined to make another ridiculous weekend. I am beginning to think this blog is becoming “Matt messed up again.” Permissions are a dangerous thing I wanted to install the Azure DevOps agent on… Continue reading A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…

Tech Tips – Moving away from k8s-at-home

Much of what I learned about Helm charting and running workloads in Kubernetes I credit to the contributors over at k8s-at-home. There expansive chart collection helped me start to jump in to Kubernetes. Last year, they announced they were deprecating their repositories. I am not surprised: the sheer volume of charts they had meant they… Continue reading Tech Tips – Moving away from k8s-at-home

Nothing says “Friday Night Fun” like crashing an RKE Cluster!

Yes… I crashed my RKE clusters in a big way yesterday evening, and I spent a lot of time getting them back. I learned a few things in the process, and may have gotten the kickstart I need to investigate new Kubernetes flavors. It all started with an upgrade… All I wanted to do was… Continue reading Nothing says “Friday Night Fun” like crashing an RKE Cluster!

Home Lab – No More iSCSI: Transfer, Shutdown, and Rebuild

This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. Observations – Migrating Servers The focus of my hobby time over the few days has been moving production assets to the temporary server. Most of it is fairly vanilla, but I have a few observations worth noting. Let me… Continue reading Home Lab – No More iSCSI: Transfer, Shutdown, and Rebuild