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Setting up a homelab on a RaspberryPi cluster with k3s

Introduction Since beginning my career in DevOps, my focus has largely been on cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), and I haven’t had the opportunity to engage deeply with traditional sysadmin tasks or server administration. I believe that setting up my own homelab and hosting applications will enhance my DevOps skills. This hands-on experience will allow me to explore storage, networking, and container orchestration at a more fundamental level, beyond the cloud abstractions I am used to. This article will highlight the hardware I chose for my homelab and the configuration needed to deploy k3s on a RaspberryPi cluster.

  • homelab
  • Kubernetes
  • RaspberryPi
  • k3s
  • Ansible
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Read
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Ansible & Packer, a match made in heaven

Introduction Ansible is an open-source automation tool that simplifies the management and configuration of systems. It uses simple, human-readable YAML files called playbooks to automate tasks like software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment across multiple servers, making it easier to maintain consistent environments. Packer is a tool designed to automate the creation of machine images for multiple platforms from a single configuration file. It allows you to define, build, and distribute virtual machine images and Docker containers images. Given the compatibility with all the major cloud providers and the ability to run parallel builds, it is a great choice for organizations that have a multi-cloud infrastructure estate and prefer to remain cloud-agnostic.

  • Ansible
  • Packer
Sunday, September 1, 2024 Read
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