The Source of Truth in Automation: A Critical Foundation In the ever-evolving landscape of automation, the concept of a “Source of Truth” (SoT) has emerged as a vital element for ensuring efficienc...

Building my own cache In the previous post, I discussed how to compile NGINX with the RTMP module to enable your webcam or a static file (using FFMPEG) to stream RTMP content. Now, let’s explore a...

Building NGINX and RTMP module I am using an ubuntu 22.04 VM for this build along with this Github repo for the RTMP module. First clone the repo locally git clone https://github.com/sergey-dryabz...

CI/CD with Gitlab Part 2 In a previous post I went through the basics on getting a gitlab pipeline defined and deploying a container to my k3s cluster. The pipeline references several variables so ...

CI/CD with Gitlab Part 1 Now that I have Gitlab up and running I want to build a small CI/CD pipeline that will create an nginx container that will host my blog. The idea is that when I create a po...

Deploying Gitlab with Helm Charts In the previous posts, we create VMs for a k3s cluster, deployed the k3s cluster, added traefik for proxying requests to service, added cert-manager to handle issu...

Adding host overrides to OPNsense firewall I use OPNsense as my firewall, DHCP, DNS server for my homelab. I’ve set an internal domain that I use so that when hosts pickup a DHCP address the hostna...

Adding longhorn with rancher-ui While planning out what I wanted to use in my cluster I thought having Gitlab would be fun, but I needed a good way to supply persistent storage to install gitlab fr...

Adding Rancher-UI - Incase you want a GUI to help with managing your cluster Rancher UI can be installed on your cluster with the helm chart, however it will install its own load balancer and ingre...

Day 6 - Deploying Cert-Manager with ansible Cert-manager is a Kubernetes native certificate management controller. It helps automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various cer...