Yearly Archives: 2024

​ In this second part of the blog series we are going to install K3S on all of our VMs. We will also leverage the Synology CSI driver and test it out at the end. Firstly, we want to be able to connect to all 3 VMs seamlessly from my Windows Ubuntu WSL on my laptop. We can use this method to push our public key on to the VMs. Create a file called server.list with the IP addresses of the 3 VMs. vi server.list 192.168.0.80 192.168.0.81 192.168.0.82 ... Next run this script to copy your public key onto the VMs. #!/bin/bash while IFS= read -r server; do ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub "$server" done < servers.list INSTALLING K3S We are going to disable the default servicelb loadbalancer and Traefik ingress controller and use Metallb instead. Also it is a good idea to disable local storage. I actually forgot this in my setup so later on…

​The latest VMware saga and the discontinuation of ESX free version has many people searching for possible home lab alternatives. When it comes to learning Kubernetes, you can always use single node clusters but there are times when you want to expand your setup to resemble production with multiple nodes. Of course, you can leverage projects like Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) or K3D (K3S nodes in Docker containers) but they come with limitations and put limits on how much you can do. My home lab is always in a state of perpetual evolution and the latest addition to my home lab a Synology DS 723+ has added a much needed boost to productivity!  My new Synology is small in size, and its versatility makes it ideal for home labs. There are a lot of blogs out there about Synology and the all the fantastic things that you can do with it in your home, but I…