Tag: RKE
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Moving On: Testing RKE2 Clusters in the Home Lab
After recovering from an RKE crash, I figured it was time to look into different Kubernetes options. I ended up with a new offering from a familiar friend.
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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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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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I’ll take ‘Compatibility Matrices’ for $1000, Alex…
I have posted a lot on Kubernetes over the past weeks. I have covered a lot around tools for observability, monitoring, networking, and general usefulness. But what I ran into over the past few weeks is both infuriating and completely avoidable, with the right knowledge and time to keep up to speed. The problem I…
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Breaking an RKE cluster in one easy step
With the release of Ubuntu’s latest LTS release (22.04, or “Jammy Jellyfish), I wanted to upgrade my Kubernetes nodes from 20.04 to 22.04. What I had hoped would be an easy endeavor turned out to be a weeks-long process with destroyed clusters and, ultimately, an ETCD issue. The Hypothesis As I viewed it, I had…