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Goodbye Azure Kubernetes, Hello Hetzner?
On to plan D! After a few good months of experimentation since my last post, I’ve come to the conclusion that Azure is not the place to meet my goals. Let\’s recap on the goals, and how well Azure and my deployment skills were able to meet each: As alluded to above, WordPress with Azure…
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Goodbye Linode Kubernetes, Hello… Azure Kubernetes?
On to plan C! After a fair amount of googling and noodling, I’ve come to the conclusion that Linodes LKE Kubernetes service can’t do what I want it to, at least in a way that doesn’t feel hacky and get expensive. My goals – and working on this migration has helped sharpen these: LKS hit…
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Hello, Kubernetes!
As a matter of learning, and to get my personal sites off of the cobbled VPS where they’ve happily lived for a while, I took on migrating them all to a Kubernetes cluster. How hard could it be, right? Or rather, how many learning opportunities could there be in this endeavor? Let’s discuss a few.…
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Goodbye, CoreOS
For my now-retired at-home hosting, and for my first migration to the cloud, I used CoreOS as my hosting OS. It\’s optimized to be a container server and for super-efficient automated deployments. It worked well, and I loved the elegance behind the design, even though I never did multi-node automated CI/CD deployments with it. I…
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Personal Disaster Recovery – part one
About last year at this time, Susie and I were knee-jerking to the fresh news of my cancer, and the first bucket list thing we jumped on was a long-discussed trip to Hawaii. It was an utterly amazing trip, and I\’m so glad we were able to go. Thanks, too, to Delta for offering me…
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No time for you…
Ever since we made the move to AT&T Uverse Fiber – and happily said “See ya!” to TimeWarner / Spectrum – we’ve been a household with clocks adrift. NTP (Network Time Protocol) set up on servers didn’t work – although I blamed myself for botched configurations, NTP on security cameras didn\’t work, and network time…