Another quick note on my very simple Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events setup in my home lab. Only the base installation procedures are described here, in later posts I will document how I use this stuff to manage an actual workload. Argo CD Okay, so what’s this all about? Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Installation First we need to create a dedicated namespace: ...
In this post I’m sharing my approach for exposing Kubernetes services and workloads to my local network(s), it’s an addition to my simple Kubernetes setup which is documented here. Kubernetes doesn’t natively support network load balancers (Services of type LoadBalancer) for bare-metal clusters. The built-in load balancer solutions are designed to work with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure, and rely on specific integrations with those IaaS providers. For clusters not running on these platforms, LoadBalancers remain in a perpetual “pending” state. ...
Another quick note on my very simple (single-node) Kubernetes setup in my home lab. ...
In a previous post I described how I migrated this static website from Github Pages to Amazon AWS using services like S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and Amazon Certificate Manager. ...
This website has been happily running on Github Pages for quite some time now. And to be honest I’ve never experienced any issues with that service. Also their pricing is pretty awesome, you can’t beat free, right?! ;-). This is a very simple static website which uses Hugo as the site generator. Anyway, I’m moving this blog over to Amazon AWS so that I have an actual “workload” (yes, I like using big words) to work with in order to get some more hands-on experience in using Amazon AWS services. This also means I will opt for Amazon AWS services even when there might be better or free options available, so please bare that in mind! ...