Deploy the Homer app to your Kubernetes Cluster

Homer is a fast and simple static HTML Dashboard by Bastien Wirtz that you can use as a landing page to access your web applications. Homer Github: https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer While homer can be deployed using a helm chart, I wanted to deploy the app using config files in my home lab. To quickly deploy homer: Create a namespace: # ns.yml apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: homer Create the Persistent Volume....

November 10, 2023 · 2 min · Jahnin Rajamoni

Portainer in K3s - Simple and Easy!

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....

October 6, 2023 · 2 min · Jahnin Rajamoni

Using k3sup to set up a K3S cluster in minutes

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....

September 27, 2023 · 2 min · Jahnin Rajamoni

VMware Certified Professional - Application Mordernization [VCP-AM] exam review

I passed the VCP-AM exam today! Yay! This exam consists of 55 multiple choice questions with a passing score of 300/500. Key tech relevant to the certification vSphere with Tanzu Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Tanzu Mission Control Kubernetes Experience and Prepration Started by going through the exam blueprint here vSphere with Tanzu I have installed and troubleshot vSphere with Tanzu; deployed and played with Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters along with enabling the harbor image registry, pushing container images and deploying pods from the harbor registry....

November 15, 2021 · 1 min · Jahnin Rajamoni

Configure conditional forwarding in coredns - Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

So how do you conditionally forward dns requests from pods that are running in your Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters to specific DNS Servers? Begin by editing the coredns configMap kubectl -n kube-system edit configmap coredns root@debian:~# k -n kube-system edit configmap coredns configmap/coredns edited Add the following section to the coredns configmap. Replace domain-name and dns-server-ip with the domain name and dns server ip you want to conditionally forward to....

November 11, 2021 · 2 min · Jahnin Rajamoni