Category Archives: New Toys

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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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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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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Mentally Need A Break

Posted on April 10, 2021 by larry

Kind of pushing hard, even today. Not getting much done and I am really scatter brained. Did get the parts for a second node, but apparently I need parts for a master node as well. I am going to keep … Continue reading →

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Pi Node Final Assembly

Posted on April 8, 2021 by larry

Got a one of my pi nodes fully built. One of the things I needed to make were a bunch of plates. I started with a template but did the 5 I needed all at a time. After I was … Continue reading →

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First Pi Node Running

Posted on April 5, 2021 by larry

Got the first node running. Kind of interesting in that you need to boot from SD card and configure it to be able to boot from USB. I don’t think you can go completely back where you cannot boot from … Continue reading →

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