It’s finally happening – I’m splitting compute and storage up, and using k8s to do so. I bought two more Dell R620s, bringing my total to three – behold, quorum. This will be a multi-part series, focusing on different things I did wrong. I want HA, or as close as I can. I know I […]
Testing VM immutability, secrets storage again, and a brief ode to ZFS
I’ve had my dev VM upgraded to Debian 11 for a few months, and have fiddled with from time to time. It’s not that I distrust Debian stable in the slightest to not be stable, but I also am not going to just throw prod a sudo apt full-upgrade (yes, with updating sources first…) and […]
Baking VMs to Perfection
I’ve now accomplished one of my previously-mentioned desires, namely, to use Packer to make VMs for Proxmox. After much battling with YAML and esoteric bash commands, I have succeeded in being able to spawn endless VMs, ready to go just how I like them. As with many projects I’ve done, this was thanks to someone […]
Hardware Sucks
It’s coarse and rough and irritating and… it sucks. There’s a reason why cloud providers are wildly popular. Scaling in AWS is incredibly easy; not so much when you’re rolling your own. God help you if you’re doing this by cobbling together disparate groups of enterprise and consumer hardware. Oh wait, that’s exactly what I’m […]