Raspberry-Pi

One of the services I run in my homelab is the Cat of the Day (CotD). Over the past few days I’ve noticed that it hasn’t been sending out the pictures and inspirational quotes that my loyal user base (~10 people 🙄 ) have come to rely upon for their morning boost of positivity in the drudgery of corporate America. This must be corrected! With almost 4 days of downtime, I am clearly in violation of my 99.99% uptime SLA* that I’ve promised to my users. I am never going to hear the end of this… ...

In a previous post, I outlined the end result of a few months of tinkering with some low-grade hardware to create a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster. This is a follow-up post for the dorks that actually want to know how it was accomplished. Preamble This is not going to be a very unique post. There are numerous, numerous, numerous, numerous guides for how to build a cluster with Raspberry Pis. Searching for " Raspberry Pi Kubernetes" returns about 1.6m results ...

I’ve spent the past few months assembling and creating a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster running on several Raspberry Pi 4 s. It is backed by a Synology NAS for networked storage. Along the way, I’ve learned a bunch of stuff about managing infrastructure. Most importantly, I’ve learned the value of a managed K8s instance from a cloud provider, as there is a bunch of operational overhead to installing all this stuff that automation helps with, but doesn’t ultimately resolve. ...