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Lately, in my home lab, I have been deploying applications into a K3S cluster. While K3S does not come with a built-in dashboard, I was looking for a solution that would provide a graphical user interface for managing my cluster. I came across Portainer, a lightweight, open-source container management platform that supports a variety of container orchestration platforms, including K3S. Deploying Portainer into your kubernetes cluster is quite easy and simple....

K3S K3S is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution. It is easy to set up and manage, and it can be deployed on a variety of hardware platforms. k3sup k3sup, pronounced ‘ketchup’ is a utility that makes it easy to set up a K3S cluster. It can be used to deploy a cluster on a single node or multiple nodes, and it can be configured to use a variety of cloud providers or on-premises infrastructure....

The sudo command allows you to run commands with root privileges. By default, sudo will prompt you for your password before running a command. However, you can configure sudo to allow you to run commands without a password. This can be useful for scripting or for automating tasks. To make sudo passwordless, you need to edit the sudoers file. This file contains configuration information for sudo. To edit the sudoers file, open a terminal window and type the following command:...

By default, SSH requires you to enter a password each time you log in. However, you can set up passwordless SSH login using a public/private key pair. This is a more secure way to log in, and it can also save you time. To set up passwordless SSH login, you will need to generate a public/private key pair on your local computer. You can do this using the following command:...

Time synchronization is paramount when configuring NSX-T and WCP based labs. Lately I’ve had to configure a windows server as a time server more than once! I dont enjoy repititive tasks and decided to write a quick powershell script to configure NTP server on a windows server. The script is straight forward and is based on the content here Modify the upstream time server by changing time.vmware.com to a NTP server of your choice in the script below....