Technical writings on site reliability engineering, devops, and system design.
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Using Cloudflare Edge Protection  Overview This tutorial walks through setting up Cloudflare on a K3s cluster: 1. P...
Read more →Tracking Internet Service Provider Performance  Why? Before 2020, homeworking was a luxury afforded to few. Even w...
Read more →Longhorn AWS S3 Backup Setup Longhorn can use block storage provided by AWS S3. For an explanation of block storage, see [IBM's overview](https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/cloud/learn/block-storage). Whi...
Read more →What is a Persistent Volume? A Persistent Volume (PV) is a piece of storage in the cluster that has been provisioned statically or dynamically using [Storage Classes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/c...
Read more →Preparing the Raspberry Pis Installing Raspberry Pi OS 1. Download the Raspberry Pi Imager tool — [video tutorial](https://youtu.be/ntaXWS8Lk34) 2. Visit https://www.raspberrypi.com/software...
Read more →Creating a Home Kubernetes Service  History In 2021/2022, I made the transition from running Pi-hole on a single Raspberry Pi 4 Model B—a setup that ser...
Read more →How Upgrading Windows Can Lead to Data Loss Recently, I had the bright idea of updating my Windows 11 install to 22H2 via an ISO installation. This caused me a whole world of pain. For those who...
Read more →AWS Sustainability  In October 2022, AWS released a new sustainability pillar for the Well-Architected Framework, adding to the existing pillars. As with ot...
Read more →Continuous Integration for K3s Where It All Started The journey starts with this blog. I've known for a while that I wanted to maintain one, but I also knew I'd likely get distracted by the ...
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