This is a personal blog focused on computer software and hardware. Most projects are implementing software and hardware for a homelab. What is a homelab? I would say a homelab could be a single computer or dozens of computers connected in a network. You can also integrate with computers in the Cloud.
As of April 18, 2023 Fedora 38 is available. Compared to the previous release, Fedora 37, there are not a large amount of changes that a desktop user will notice. This release includes the GNOME desktop version 44 which includes a new lock screen, new “background” apps settings menu and they reduced the default grace period given to processes when you shut down your system which will make sure your system powers off quickly.
In a previous post I deployed a factorio game server using docker. The same image can be deployed onto kubernetes. Installing factorio on Kubernetes Requirements In order to proceed, you must have a k8s platform, the kubectl command line utility, and a persistent provider. If you are not familiar with kubernetes, check out a previous post to get started. Deployment to k8s In order to deploy factorio onto a kubernetes cluster, the deployment needs to be configured in YAML format document.
It is important to keep your computers up to date with the latest software and security updates. Running Kubernetes requires some kind of underlying system to run the containers. If you are not familiar with Kubernetes or containers, check out a previous post to get started. In a previous post, I looked at a tool, Ansible, to run common tasks on many systems at once. I still use Ansible to patch all of my systems every month.
The Longhorn project is simplified, easy to deploy and upgrade, open source, persistent block storage on the Kubernetes platform. If you are not familiar with Kubernetes (k8s), check out a previous post to get started. If you are using Kubernetes in a homelab which is what I focus on in this blog, you may notice that setting up apps that worked well in Docker are much more challenging in Kubernetes. It is very easy to set up static web apps in Kubernetes as the container image includes all the files you need.
My homelab has evolved quite a bit over time. After implementing a wiki, I have tracked servers and services deployed there. In 2023 I have not done much in the homelab because I moved across my country. Fortunately the only equipment that died during the move was a Raspberry Pi 3b. Last “homelab update” post was August 2022 2023 Notable addition in 2023 was a migration from a Unifi USG to a Unifi UDM (Dream Machine Pro).
Ubuntu 22.04 was released in 2022 and is a long term support server Linux distribution. We can reasonably expect the publishers of Ubuntu to maintain security and kernel updates for Ubuntu until 2027. This distribution is a good choice for using as a base template for virtual machines. If you are not familiar with creating virtual machine templates for Proxmox, check out a previous post that is more focused on getting started.