Improvements in and around my home
Since the last network update post, I have added a couple of additional items to my office rack. I moved the Unifi US-XG-16 switch from the garage to the office and removed the Unifi USW-Flex-XG switch – this will move out to the garage when I finally configure the new storage server. The Home Assistant…
Some of the technologies that will be used on this installation: Kubernetes or K8s (K ‘8 letters’ S – pronounced ‘cates’) is a container orchestration system that automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications K3s (K ‘3 letters’ S) is a lightweight version of Kubernetes designed for IoT and Edge Computing…
My last network upgrade post was on 16th December 2022, quite a bit has changed since then and I forgot to document any of it, so I will provide an update here. In September 2023, I purchased a larger 15U rack for use in my office, as I wanted a slightly deeper one so it…
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…