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How I setup my local Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi using k3s to run different network services for my homelab
When you are running a home lab like mine, that is a dual use equipment – I use a Dell Precision 7750 dual booting ESXi 7.0U1 and Ubuntu 18.04- it gets cumbersome to host some basic services as VMs inside your enviroment like DNS and NTP.
So looking for a cheap way to run this kind of services outside of my virtual enviroment I started to use a old Raspberry Pi 2, running basic dnsmasq and ntpd to get this kind of services.
Continue reading “Kubernetes Home Cloud with Raspberry Pi”This week I had a call with a customer to discuss about how we can help them with their DevOps initiatives. I introduced to them the concepts of microservices, containers and Kubernetes, but at the end they where still struggling to understand how all the different technologies fit together.
I proposed to do a workshop and show them the whole process of placing an app in a container and running it in Kubernetes. But hey, that’s not they way the should be doing it a the end right? The whole idea of DevOps is to have an automated pipeline: to go from code, to container, to production automatically, using the concept of CI/CD – Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
Continue reading “CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins running on Kubernetes and Deploying to Kubernetes.”Good morning/afternoon/evening, these days have been hectic, for good or for bad during this pandemic situation, there’s a lot of work! Days full of Zoom calls are good to continue having that contact with our customers, but bad for blogging. 🙂
Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to share my experience installing in my home lab Vmware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, that is GA since last Thursday 4/9/2020. I have to admit that I did my first tries installing it manually without using Cluster API / Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPI/CAPV), and I was unsuccessful; but using now the TKG CLI it’s a breeze.
Continue reading “I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!”In this post I’m going to explain how I configured my homelab to integrate a Kubernetes cluster with the Dell EMC Isilon CSI driver. I had to create a new cluster as the plugin has specific requirements:
Following up the series of homelab guides, I will explain how I setup my Kubernetes lab running from my laptop with VMware Workstation using Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS as base OS.
Continue reading “Deploy Kubernetes using kubeadm in Ubuntu 18.04 running on VMware Workstation”
Last week I finally completed my first certification of the year, Cloud Native Foundation – Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
After VMworld last year and all the hype with Kubernetes I decided to started studying about this new kind of platform, and as usual I tried to guide my training with a goal in mind, in this case CKA seemed like the best goal to seek. It is also a pre-requisite for the new VMware Cloud Native Master Specialist certification that seemed interesting.
Continue reading “Kubernetes Certified Administrator – CKA”
