Category: Technology
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Home Lab – No More iSCSI – Backup Plans
This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. It is worth nothing (and quite ironic) that I went through a fire drill last week when I crashed my RKE clusters. That event gave me some fresh eyes into the data that is important to me. How much…
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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…
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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…
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Installing Minio on a Synology Diskstation with Nginx SSL
In an effort to get rid of a virtual machine on my hypervisor, I wanted to move my Minio instance to my Synology. Keeping the storage interface close to the storage container helps with latency and is, well, one less thing I have to worry about in my home lab. There are a few guides…
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Home Lab – No More iSCSI, Prep and Planning
This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. I realized today that my home lab setup, by technology standards, is old. Sure, my overall setup has gotten some incremental upgrades, including an SSD cache for the Synology, a new Unifi Security Gateway, and some other new accessories.…
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Managing Hyper-V VM Startup Times with .Net Minimal APIs
In a previous post, I had a to-do list that included managing my Hyper-V VMs so that they did not all start at once. I realized today that I never explained what I was able to do or post the code for my solution. So today, you get both. And, for the impatient among you,…
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Pulling metrics from Home Assistant into Prometheus
I have setup an instance of Home Assistant as the easiest front end for interacting with my home automation setup. While I am using the Universal Devices ISY994 as the primary communication hub for my Insteon devices, Home Assistant provides a much nicer interface for my family, including a great mobile app for them to…
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Lessons in Managing my Kubernetes Cluster: Man Down!
I had a bit of a panic this week as routine tasks took me down a rabbit hole in Kubernetes. The more I manage my home lab clusters, the more I realize I do not want to be responsible for bare metal clusters at work. It was a typical upgrade… With ArgoCD in place, the…
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Hitting for the cycle…
Well, I may not be hitting for the cycle, but I am certainly cycling Kubernetes nodes like it is my job. The recent OpenSSL security patches got me thinking that I need to cycle my cluster nodes. A Quick Primer In Kubernetes, a “node” is, well, a machine performing some bit of work. It could…
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What’s in a (Release) Name?
With Rancher gone, one of my clusters was dedicated to running Argo and my standard cluster tools. Another cluster has now become home for a majority of the monitoring tools, including the Grafana/Loki/Mimir/Tempo stack. That second cluster was running a little hot in terms of memory and CPU. I had 6 machines running what 4-5…