Category Archives: Technical

Finding Ways To Deal With Throat

Posted on May 2, 2021 by larry

Slowly finding ways to deal with my throat problems. The salt water rinse every couple hours works. CPAP with my mouth shut seams to as well. Neighbor says it will be a week before things get to normal. On another … Continue reading →

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Manually Moving Workloads

Posted on April 29, 2021 by larry

My pi cluster is starting to run some workloads. It is interesting now. Fun looking on docker hub on what I can run on the pi cluster. So far bind cloudflared heimdall home-assistant mediawiki nagios pihole wordpress centos It is … Continue reading →

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Bleeding Stopped Still Hurts To Eat

Posted on April 28, 2021 by larry

At about 2AM this morning the bleeding was under control. But It still hurt to talk and even more so hurt to eat. I had my son look in my mouth and he freaked out. I looked myself and saw … Continue reading →

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Pi Thermals

Posted on April 24, 2021 by larry

Looks like we do need active cooling for the Pi when using PoE Note the heat increase when you do not use a fan. This is a big box fan blowing on all the nodes. Interestingly, here are 4 small … Continue reading →

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Getting Busy

Posted on April 22, 2021 by larry

Today felt like a rest day compared to other days. Been busy, got a lot going Learning a SAN Getting better with grafana Figuring out Kubernetes Losing Weight. A lot going, so today was a day it was nice to … Continue reading →

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Mental Block

Posted on April 20, 2021 by larry

I am hitting some sort of wall in my workout. Just did pushups and situps today, but wanted to mention it from yesterday. I feel like the run scares me, but when I hit the elliptical or recumbent bike I … Continue reading →

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Maintenance, Management, and Monitoring

Posted on April 19, 2021 by larry

Working on standards for my new cluster. Kind of cool, it is ready to go. But having issues with imaging, and rebuilding. Hopefully will have something by the weekend. Weight: 318.4

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All Four Kubernetes Nodes Assembled

Posted on April 18, 2021 by larry

Finally got my four kubernetes worker nodes are up as well as the management head. I do have an OS on each of them, but there are some consistency issues. Working on the proper build process. But happy that they … Continue reading →

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Building New Monitoring Server

Posted on April 16, 2021 by larry

I just built a monitoring server, so why am I building another one? This is a special one just to hold data. Going to lock it down too. Exercise was good, it actually felt easy AND I did it above … Continue reading →

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All Pieces for Minimal Cluster

Posted on April 11, 2021 by larry

I got all the things I need for a minimal cluster. I got two 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 as worker nodes. I got one 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 as a manager node The POE switch is in as well. Jaw … Continue reading →

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