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Microk8s Control Plane API Load Balancing

Here’s a tale of how I came to load balance the Control Plane API of my 3 node microk8s cluster running on VM’s in my home lab.

Pruning microk8s containerd when k8s garbage collection fails

microk8s, well k8s as a whole tbf, seems to really struggle with garbage collection when the disk is (nearly) full. Which seems odd to me. When you really need garbaga collection to work, it’s failing on you. Why is that? Grinds my gears, it does.

Extending/resizing a logical volume file system

In my infinite wisdom, I recently decided to “Just add more disk” to address a problem I was having with garbage collection. I wanted to add another 16GB of storage to my LVM filesystem to just stop my monitoring from carrying on about there being <20% available. Plus, the microk8s garbage collection was being garbage.

Windows Server Virtual Interface with a configured VLAN with a custom MAC

I’m not a Windows server kinda guy, but do you think I could find a nice, easy to follow, walk-through on how to create a Windows Server Virtual Interface on a given VLAN and using a custom MAC?

The Source

A little while ago I penned a quick (and funny?) ditty about source code, loosely based on the theme song of the Mr Ed show.