Improvements in and around my home
I wrote a previous article about my EV charging point installation. A few months back my Pod Point charger stopped working, it would make clicking sounds for hours on end, keeping people awake at night and ultimately flattened the car battery. I attempted to contact Pod Point by email, however I simply received an automated…
As a result of my ever escalating electricity costs, I have decided to look into solar energy and battery storage. I have recently been switched over to smart meters for my gas and electricity supply and have been watching the associated display constantly tell me that I ma over budget for the week. I have…
I made a previous post about my flat roof where I covered it with fibreglass – Flat Roof Area This unfortunately had begun to fail and was becoming ‘spongy’ in places and was also once again leaking inside, so using some of the funds from the recent sale of my condo in the USA I decided…
Well I was never really happy about using the tower PC case that I mentioned in the previous NAS post, it was just too big and bulky, so I continued looking for alternate solutions. Eventually I settled on using an EMC KTN-STL3 unit that can hold 15 x 3.5″ SAS drives in a short 3U…
I mentioned in my previous post that I had acquired a Unifi 10Gbit 8 port Aggregation switch, I also acquired a 12U Star Tech wall mountable rack for £100.00 from the same guy I bought the new NAS case from (picture is the 9U version). This meant that I could move some of my kit…
Now that I am starting to make YouTube videos, I need somewhere to store all of the huge Hi-Rez render files, the 2TB drive in my iMac Pro is simply not big enough to use for ongoing storage. It is fine for working on the files locally, but for long term storage, they need somewhere…
After playing with my Kubernetes cluster for a while and trying out various WordPress and MySQL installations, I was not happy with the performance. I had created a replicated MySQL installation with a master and 2 slaves using the Bitnami Helm chart and then set up a WordPress pod that used NFS mounted from internal…
On each server edit the sudoers file such that no password is required for sudo commands (required for k3sup to work) %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Install First Master server k3sup install \ –host=1of3 \ –user=moorest \ –k3s-version=v1.21.5+k3s1 \ –local-path=borg.yaml \ –context borg \ –cluster \ –tls-san 10.68.0.70 \ –k3s-extra-args=”–disable servicelb –node-taint node-role.kubernetes.io/master=true:NoSchedule” Setup aliases and…
This part should be simple I thought – I have a PXE boot server running netboot.xyz, the clients will just default to network booting, I choose my desired OS, the install happens and away we go, just like it did on my recent Lenovo m93p Minecraft server build. Oh no, that would be far too…
I have decided to build a bare metal Kubernetes K3s cluster using a number of Lenovo M92p Tiny desktop machines as the cluster nodes. These machines really are small I had previously bought a Lenovo M93p Tiny for use as a dedicated Minecraft server for my kids and really liked the size as well…