There comes a time when running Kubernetes where you want to have a standard container for debugging networking/storage issues in your cluster without a particular service running. For example, recently I saw the below dreaded logs in my prometheus deployment and needed a way of wiping the prometheus storage without…

I recently noticed that some lookups on my cluster were failing due to them being resolved as IPv6 rather than IPv4. In the interest of simplicity and to save investigating this further, I would like for all DNS lookups on my cluster to resolve to the IPv4 address of the…

If you’ve been following my journey, I have recently built a new Homelab to learn Kubernetes (Setting up homelab 3.0, Installing a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster with Ansible). I’ve deployed a few services using Kubernetes manifest files with manually created secrets using kubectl create secret. …

In this article we are going to be covering how to deploy an ingress LoadBalancer service into your Kubernetes cluster with Letsencrypt certificates which are automatically renewed via the Cloudflare API. Before proceeding, this article does assume that you already have a Cloudflare account configured for your domain and the…

This article will cover the basics on writing configuration files to deploy a project onto Kubernetes. We are going to be converting a docker-compose file into Kubernetes resources — While describing the various options and hurdles you may come across along the way. To demonstrate this, I am going to…

I have recently started diving back into the world of having a home lab of self hosting a few services for training and home automation and have very quickly remembered prior struggles of remembering IP addresses for servers, DHCP ranges across various VLANs etc so once again find myself setting…

In a previous article (Setting up homelab 3.0) I described the initial installation of the latest iteration of my home lab environment running Kubernetes on 3x HP 800 G2 small form factor machines. In this article, I’m going to be explaining in greater detail the process for installing Kubernetes with…

My homelab setup has yo-yo’ed a lot over the years, starting with a small Netgear NAS for backing up family photos, progressing to a HP cube server for learning VMWare when I started hitting limits of the NAS. …

In this article we’re going to cover some housekeeping that you can do on your GitHub repositories to keep your repositories secure accross a GitHub organisation. We’re going to be reviewing a few key areas to determine your repository safety: Is there a clear owner? How relevant is the code? …