Setting up a Kubernetes cluster across 2 virtualized CentOS nodes

tl:dr – I tried installing Kubernetes from scratch on Fedora Atomic hosts, but couldn’t get it working. I captured the steps I went through up until the point where I got stuck, but thinking there has to be an easier way, I found kubeadm and successfully used that to get a cluster up and running …

Repurposing HDDs from my HP DL380 rack server in a downsized HP Elitedesk 800 g5 homelab

I used to run an HP DL380 G7 2U rack server for my homelab, but it would have been too expensive to ship during an international house move so abandoned it during the move. In the meantime I went back to running Proxmox on my 2008 MacPro (which I did have shipped), but after a …

Deploying Docker containers to AWS ECS Fargate

The interesting feature of AWS ECS Fargate is that it’s ‘serverless for containers’. Serverless broadly means you don’t need to be concerned with the provisioning and maintenance of the servers or compute that are running your code. With Fargate, you don’t have to provision compute for your Docker Containers, AWS manages the compute for you. …

Moving my nginx+mysql WordPress VPS native install to Docker containers on a KVM VPS

My WordPress blog that you’re reading right now is running on nginx and MySQL installed on a cheap OpenVZ VPS. I’ve been running on a $2.50 VPS from Virmach for the past 6 months or so and been very happy with the service. I spent a bunch of time tweaking the nginx and MySQL config params …