A couple months back, there was a lot of hype around Mastodon and the Fediverse - a de-centralized social platform that some people were heading towards away from Twitter. While I won't be migrating off Twitter, I did want to…
Thanks to a recent vBrownbag session with Chris Colotti on Cloudflare Zero Trust, I decided to write up how I use Zero Trust Tunnels instead of a VPN to access my homelab resources. Cloudflare Zero Trust encompasses a couple different…
From the previous post we have successfully set up the ubuntu VM template, deployed Rancher, and set up the requirements to deploy our template from Rancher - it's now time to deploy the first cluster! Creating the first cluster From…
In the previous post, we covered the architecture of the lab, installing Rancher in an Ubuntu VM, and then setting up an Ubuntu template for consumption in Rancher. In this post, I'll show how setup a new node template to…
I've been learning a lot on Kubernetes these last couple months, and wanted to get my homelab setup to a point to makes deploying clusters easy and reliable. When I first started, I simply used minikube and docker on my…
Recently, I took a Raspberry Pi I had lying around (who doesn't?) and decided to install Pi-Hole. Pi-Hole is essentially a DNS server for your home, running on a Raspberry Pi. It's job is to filter DNS requests to the…