Proxmox Proxmox - Tired of deploying from ISO? Upload VM image Recently, I had to replace my homelab VMware ESXi server… we all know why. After considering the many open-source options available, I decided on Proxmox due to its similarities with
Docker OpenStack / Cloud-init - Deploy Docker Ubuntu VM in under 2 minutes In this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy a fully configured Ubuntu VM with Docker using cloud-init in OpenStack. With this setup, you’ll have Docker up and
Nextcloud Deploying Nextcloud in K8s using HELM A friend recently wanted to give me photos that he had taken at a party. Copying them to an old usb stick just took too long and so I offered
K8s Upgrade or Downgrade K3s This will be a very short but helpful post. I use k3s on my VPS server because it is a very stable and simple K8s distribution. Upgrading is also very
Ceph Cleaning Up My Ceph Cluster with OSD Backfillfull: A Journey to Optimal Performance Managing a Ceph cluster can be a complex yet rewarding experience. Recently, I encountered an issue with OSD (Object Storage Daemon) backfillfull, which required immediate attention to ensure the smooth
Lets Encrypt Plausible Analytics Helm Chart Plausible is a GDPR, CCPA and cookie law compliant Google Analytics alternative, that can help you analyse traffic on your web services. They offer a paid service but there is
Cloud Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2 released - How to upgrade Beginning of December Kolla-Ansible released their support for OpenStack 2023. (Bobcat). Most notable changes (to me) are: * RabbitMQ quorum queues * These are now enabled by default and I highly recommend
Containers OpenStack Magnum Kubernetes Cluster API driver in Kolla-Ansible Update 27.12.2023 With the release of Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2 (Bobcat), the CAPI driver is now already included in Magnum. While the Magnum docs are not yet updated,
Cloud Update: Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform It's been quite a while since my last post as I had a lot of stuff to do at my workplace and besides that I studied for VMware
S3 Velero backup to TrueNAS S3 with free Let's Encrypt certificate In one of my previous blogposts, I explained how to install and configure Velero with TrueNAS as an S3 storage backend. My whole blogpost was focused on running everything on
Kolla-Ansible Cinder Containers unhealthy I recently replaced all 3 control nodes in my OpenStack cluster and once I replaced the last control node, all of a sudden three of the four Cinder containers became
OpenStack OpenStack Magnum insecure registry It is very convenient to use a local docker registry when deploying Kubernetes clusters using Magnum in OpenStack. Especially if you like me try to deploy multiple clusters to test
Cloud Kolla-Ansible upgrade from Yoga to Zed Since there still seems to be no official guide on how to upgrade from OpenStack release Yoga to Zed with Kolla-Ansible, I have put together the steps that I used
Virtualbox Deploying VMs in Virtualbox using Terraform Provider terrafarm/virtualbox Today I simply wanted to deploy 1-2 VMs in virtualbox using the Terraform provider terrafarm/virtualbox. What should have been very easy turned out to take me around 15-20 minutes
OpenStack Kolla-Ansible Zun (Container Service) deployment fails Update: Looks like the problem has now also been detected by the kolla-ansible team. There is a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/zun/+bug/2007142 and they have updated
Cloud Deploy Kubernetes Clusters in OpenStack within minutes with Magnum Now that we have set up our cool and high available OpenStack cloud, it is time to try out the various services that you can provide to your end users
Kolla-Ansible Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform If you did read one of my very first blog posts about the deployment of OpenStack in my homelab you might want to have a look at this new article,
Truenas, Failed to replace a failed disk in TrueNAS Scale - device busy Yes, hard disks do break from time to time. But thanks to ZFS and RAIDZ-1, there is no reason to panic. Or is there? Interestingly the disk was not reported
Kubernetes Kubernetes Backup with Velero As soon as you have set up your Kubernetes cluster and deployed a few containers, the question arises how to create backups. A very useful and comfortable tool for this
News Welcome Welcome to my "new" blog. Yes, you read correctly "new" blog. I had already started a blog on a very well-known blogging platform, but the totally
Homelab Building a more advanced homelab setup with a dedicated server running VMware ESXi This article builds on my previous article "Building a minmal homelab on Windows with Virtualbox and Vagrant within minutes". Especially for larger deployments, such as a multinode OpenStack
Truenas, How to incredibly increase TrueNAS VM NIC throughput I recently replaced my favourite OmniOS VM in my HomeLab with TrueNAS Core. Main reason for this was that I wanted to play around with the very cool VAAI features
Homelab Building a minmal homelab on Windows with Virtualbox and Vagrant within minutes If you want to build a flexible and inexpensive homelab and don't want to invest money in an additional server for the time being, then I can only
Truenas, How to install and setup TrueNAS Scale or how I replaced my two old Odroid HC2 by a single Odroid H2 It was finally time to replace my two old Odroid HC2s with something newer. I had them both running with a 3.5 inch 2TB hard drive each and they
