Shipping Kubernetes pod, journal, and event logs to Loki with Grafana Alloy
Deploy Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes with Argo CD to collect container logs, the systemd journal, and cluster events into Loki.
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Shipping Docker logs to Loki from a Raspberry Pi with Fluent Bit
Run Fluent Bit on a 32-bit Raspberry Pi to tail Docker json-file logs without the socket and push them to Grafana Loki.
Dotfiles in a private Git repository
A simple way to track shell, Git, SSH, and other configuration files with a private bare Git repository.
Pulling Kubernetes secrets from Bitwarden with External Secrets Operator
Use External Secrets Operator with Bitwarden Secrets Manager to sync managed secrets into Kubernetes without committing secret values to Git.
Automating wildcard TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Use cert-manager, Route 53 DNS-01 validation, and Reflector to renew and distribute wildcard TLS certificates across Kubernetes namespaces.
Polling Home Assistant to store data long term
I created a Go app to poll Home assistant and store sensor data in a database.