Dalen Catt

My Extremely Low-Effort Blog

Year: 2021

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    Adding worker nodes to k3s

    At this point, to further our experiments and to better understand how k3s operates, we need to add some more nodes. To start off here, we are not yet going to add any more master nodes for HA. Instead, we’re just going to add some worker nodes so we can see the difference in how…

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    A simpler single node k3s cluster

    Last time, we covered what was basically a full k3s install, complete with load-balancing and ingress control, plus rancher. The reality is, you really don’t need all this on a single node. What good is load balancing if you only have one node? So let’s look at a slightly modified k3s install. First, let’s uninstall…

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    Kubernetes on Proxmox

    For the moment, I only have one server running. After setting proxmox up, I set up a single local zfs store on 1 disk. I am not too worried about creating a ceph cluster at the moment, because while ceph is great for HA and replication on many clusters, it is awful for storage capacity.…

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  • My thoughts on the UDM Pro

    An aside for later, growing disappointed in my choice of Ubiquity gear: I used to love Ubiquity and the gear they produced. It always seemed to be enterprise grade hardware with consumer friendly interfaces and prices. Unifi used to give you so much more power in how you configured your network and exposed much more…

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  • LB-6M Link Aggregation

    This article exists for reference only. After all of the configurations I attempted, I could not get link aggregation to work on the 4 1G ports on my Quanta. It does theoretically support it, and I later tested the same process on 2 10G SFP ports which did work. This is more just for reference…

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