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  • Monitoring as Code with Grafana

    Monitoring as Code with Grafana

    TL;DR: I used Grafana Helm charts and ArgoCD to deploy dashboards as code. I’ve been using Grafana to build dashboards for years, both at work and as a hobby. A dashboard was created by hand for monitoring my garage Kubernetes cluster. Since I’ve adopted gitOps with ArgoCD a few years ago, what about going forward…

    September 27, 2022
    Systems Admin
    gitops, grafana
  • How to Connect to Cloud SQL via SSH

    TL;DR: here’s a handy bash script which can connect to a private Cloud SQL instance(MySQL in this case) via a bastion host. Prerequisites: Google Cloud SQL instance with mTLS certs provisioned Google Cloud SDK installed(the gcloud command) a bash shell(better be V5.0+) OpenSSH and MySQL CLI installed Google Cloud SQL is an RDB as a…

    September 13, 2022
    Systems Admin
    Google Cloud, mysql, ssh
  • A Load Balancer for Cloud SQL Replicas

    TL;DR: As of Aug 2022, there’s no out of box load balancing for Google Cloud SQL read replicas. So I built one for MySQL replicas with HAProxy with the ability to dynamically reload when number of replicas has changed. It will be quite straight forward to run a few HAProxy pods in Kubernetes as a…

    August 26, 2022
    Systems Admin
    Google Cloud, kubernetes, mysql
  • How to Use a Local Persistent Volume

    TL;DR: A local persistent volume in a Kubernetes cluster is a persistent volume allocated in a certain node. Any pod mounting the volume will be automatically scheduled in the same node. Since it’s limited to 1 node, clearly it can’t be used as a high-availability solution, but hey, it’s quite Ok to use it for…

    August 13, 2022
    Opensource, Systems Admin
    kubernetes
  • Home Owner’s Guide to Free Gas Heating

    Home Owner’s Guide to Free Gas Heating

    TL; DR. No there’s no free natural gas but there’s free electricity, hope you don’t mind heating up your rooms with reverse cycle air conditioners instead My old house had an equally old gas heater, and we had been using it for years. 4 years ago, the heater broke down, so I had it replaced…

    July 3, 2022
    Energy Efficiency
    air conditioning
  • How to Share Files on Linux Using Docker

    Prerequisites: A Linux computer(mine is Fedora 36) Docker(or podman) installed I know, there’s traditional ways to share files over network such as samba or the very current cloud way such as Google Drive. Or I can just use a USB key. But I managed to impress my child(who has to use Windows because of her…

    June 26, 2022
    Opensource
    docker, share
  • How to Build Multi-Arch Docker Images for MacBook M1

    At work, I currently use a MacBook Pro with an Intel chipset and some of my colleagues have upgraded to ones with M1 chipset which is of arm64 or aarch64 architecture. Then expectedly I need to build some Docker images for both architectures. I’ve done some multi-arch Docker stuff before so this is not really…

    June 23, 2022
    Systems Admin
    arm64, docker, mac
  • How To Renew Certificates in Kubernetes Clusters, Revisited

    There is a lot of TLS certificates used by the core of a Kubernetes cluster and a popular one is the client-server pair used by kubectl to authenticate to the cluster control plane. In my previous notes on how to renew certificates in a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm, I found that the steps are quite…

    May 21, 2022
    Opensource, Systems Admin
    Cert, kubernetes, TLS
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