Just published my second blog post - a deep dive into running Kubernetes on bare metal Raspberry Pis.

Covers everything from routing cluster traffic over a self-hosted Tailscale mesh, to GitOps with Flux, encrypted secrets with SOPS + age, and NFS storage over WireGuard.

Also: the upstream k3s-ansible bug that cost me an afternoon, and why its always DNS

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#kubernetes #homelab #raspberrypi #selfhosted #gitops #devops #linux

Kubernetes on Bare Metal: Worth the Pain?

A self-hosted Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis. From mesh VPN and bare-metal k3s to GitOps with Flux and SOPS encrypted secrets.

^{Mo (moritz)}

Seventeen years ago! I bought this multi-million dollar hoard of Sun servers from a scrap yard for $300. After testing, fixing, and swapping parts to max out some of them, I traded a couple for an SGI Onyx for the museum, a few more for parts of what eventually became my personal 16-proc Origin-2000, and kept two as compute servers for my film making.

(A maxxed-out E4000 has 14 x 400 Mhz UltraSparc II's, and 14 gig of ram (In 128meg sticks! Ha ha ha. Warm.)).

#RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #HomeLab