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Kubernetes at Home on Raspberry Pi 4, Part 3
Continue from part 2, this is mostly about installing ingress controller. In short, an ingress controller is like a single entry point for all ingress connections into the cluster. The reason I chose Flannel over other CNIs is that it’s lightweight and not bloated with features. I would like to keep the Pi 4s easy…
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Kubernetes at Home on Raspberry Pi 4, Part 2
Continue from part 1 It’s recommended to change all Pi’s password also run ssh-copy-id pi@192.168.1.x to enable SSH public key login. There are lots of steps to prepare before kubeadm is installed, so I made this ansible repository to simplify this repeating process. Please see here. The ansible role will do the following tasks: set…
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Kubernetes at Home on Raspberry Pi 4, Part 1
I mostly followed/was inspired by this tutorial but with some tweak/fix to recent(Sep 2019) software versions. Also this is a pure Linux walk-through as I don’t use a Mac. I planned to build a home Kubernetes(k8s) cluster and migrate home servers including the one this blog is running on to the k8s cluster, for a…
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Use FZF to Speed Up KUBECTL
FZF is general purpose option selector for Linux command line. By default fzf is an super-upgrade for the ctrl-r command history finder, but it is helpful for almost any scenario where you need to pick 1 item from a list. Here’s a tiny use case where I use fzf to select a kubernetes namespace and…
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AWS Lambda with Single CloudFormation Template
This is just a quick snippet of CloudFormation template to deploy a Python 3.7 Lambda function embedded in the template. The source code inside ZipFile can contain up to 4KB. # CloudFormation templateAWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09Resources: LambdaCode: Type: AWS::Lambda::Function DependsOn: – LambdaRole – LambdaPolicy Properties: Code: ZipFile: | import boto3 def handler(event, context): … Role: !GetAtt LambdaRole.Arn…
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Golang and Docker Multi-Stage Build
I have noticed a common pattern amonst some new utilities such as kubectl, kops and terraform: There’s only 1 single executable file to install, and by ‘install’ it can be put anywhere as long as it’s in $PATH. This was before I learned some Golang but it’s easy to find out that the reason behind…
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Install Nvidia 396 Driver for Ubuntu 18.04
Just some quick notes to upgrade Nvidia driver from 390 to 396 on Ubuntu 18.04. By default Ubuntu 18.04 only has Nvidia driver 390. # add ubuntu official ppa for nvidia# all commands below run as rootadd-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppaapt update# install 396 filesapt install nvidia-dkms-396 nvidia-driver-396 nvidia-compute-utils-396 libnvidia-compute-396# reboot at the end. After reboot, the new…
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Home VPN with OpenVPN
Here are step to run a simple OpenVPN service at home, so that I can access home network easily while not at home. First, clone the git repo for OpenVPN docker container: git clone https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn.git I can use the pre-built docker image from docker hub but it has just been breached so I’d rather build…