In this series, I’ll go over the lab environment, which I share with https://www.simplygeek.co.uk/ History: My home lab started at home with two servers and https://www.simplygeek.co.uk/ having the same setup. In 2020, the UK saw a huge increase in electricity and fuel costs, so these systems couldn’t be run 24/7 due to sheer cost. Having … Read more
A brief recap from part 1 Deployed 4x VMs, with ubuntu 20.04 Created an inventory list of the nodes Update the VM’s Deployed the prerequisites Deployed Docker-ce Deploy Non-Root user Add K8 repositories Disable Swap Deploy Master Configuaration Deploy Worker Configuaration
This series will document my journey in creating a Kubernetes cluster in my home lab, which consists of a handful of mac minis with ESXi 7.02 installed and some shared storage. I appreciated that most people would use a public cloud offering for this service but to understand how this service works, I decided to … Read more
Lessons LearnedHow did i fix it?Conclusion Lessons Learned: I have been using the Mikrotik CRS326-24S+2Q+ switch/router for approx 6 – 8 months and have been using it exclusively for my home lab. Over the last few months, I have been experiencing timeouts, packet drops and in general network slowness that you wouldn’t expect from a … Read more
Step one: taking a Network Interface Card inventory on an ESXi host Step Two: Collect NIC Vendor and device ID numbers: Step Three: Decode the NIC Vendor and device ID numbers into the format VID:DID SVID:SSID Example: VID = Vendor Id = 14e4 DID = Device Id = 165f SVID = Sub-Vendor Id =1028 Max SSID = … Read more