A perfect cradle for your personal cloud
Quite a few months ago, I started an ambitious project. My goal was to create a case for Raspberry Pis to combine them into a cluster and run Kubernetes. Constrains were the following: The...
Category: Hardware
Fixing Rock64 v2 Gigabit Ethernet
Half a year ago I bought three Rock64 (4 GB model) for my home Kubernetes cluster and I was mostly happy with them, they are quick, quiet and reliable. Although, I noticed one issue....
Connect to bare-metal Kubernetes cluster from other PC
You’ve been working hard, got the necessary hardware, assembled everything and installed a brand new Kubernetes cluster probably using some Ansible playbook or something else. Now what? You need to start installing additional software and...
Using CoreDNS and MetalLB on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters
If you decide to build your own bare-metal Kubernetes cluster, one of the things you need to think about is how you are going to get access to the services running on it. You...
Connect MikroTik router to a WiFi access point and serve Internet via Ethernet and WiFi
If you have a spare MikroTik router hAP ac you can easily connect it to another WiFi access point using one WiFi interface and serve Internet via Ethernet ports and another WiFi interface creating...
Flashing ESP8266
Recently I got a very cool device – a tiny ESP8266 development board from Olimex (MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV). Why is it cool? Because it’s basically a micro-controller with embedded WiFi capabilities and TCP/IP stack which you...
