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Create your own cluster

August 15, 2023
cluster, Kubernetes
kubernetes, How to, k3s, ha, cilium, metallb

For a long time, I’ve been trying to achieve a better configuration in my home lab. Since I have been working with Kubernetes (k8s) for an extended period of time, I have always desired an overkill configuration with multiple nodes for high availability. However, looking at the costs related to running such a setup, I got depressed. I then explored alternatives and came to the conclusion… Raspberry Pis! I bought 6 Raspberry Pis and said which one should I use k0s, k3s or some other lightweight k8s? ...

How to config SOPS in Helm

February 28, 2021
Helm, Kubernetes, How to
helm, helmcharts, sops, kubernetes, helmfile, cluster, helm-secrets, secrets

In our previous post about helmfile, we spoke briefly about sops, but we didn’t use it or speak more about it… Now it’s the time to do that. With SOPS, we can have a file in our repo that is encrypted by sops and have the variables to use in our chart through Helmfile there. What is Sops? # If we take a look at the Project, we’ll see that Mozilla defines SOPS as “an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault and PGP”. ...

How to set up your kluster with helmfile

January 30, 2021
Helm, Kubernetes, How to, cluster
cluster, helm, helmcharts, kubernetes, helmfile

Helmfile is a tool that allows you to get more out of Helm. When you use helmfile, you can implement as many charts as you want. Helmfile allows you to template the charts with the values that you want, and it will ship it to your cluster. Helmfile brings modular deployments too, by this I mean that you can have a huge list of deployments, and you can say deploy only this group of helmchart, you can also deploy them in sequence. ...