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My homelab has been great for helping me apply Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps concepts in a practical way. However, it does take a considerable amount of time and energy to maintain. That's why today, I'm super excited to finally automate another part of my homelab: container image updates with Flux …
Harverster is a new open source Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) from Rancher. It's built on Kubernetes and uses Kubevirt to run KVM virtual machines inside Kubernetes Pods. It also inlcudes Rancher's Longhorn distributed storage system which provides shared block storage to all VMs which enables live migration of VMs out of …
If you've stumbled on this post, chances are that you might already be familiar with OSPF and/or IS-IS as the two most common link state routing protocols in use today. Unlike traditional distance-vector routing protocols, routers running link state routing protocols populate a link state database of the entire …
Originally ratified in the IEEE 802.1D standard, spanning-tree protocol (STP) is used ubiquitously throughout enterprise networks to prevent layer 2 network loops. With STP, traffic on physically redundant paths between bridges (or switches today) is blocked to form a logical loop-free topology. It's a fundamental technology all network professional …
I recently migrated to a new NAS for my home network and planned to add an extra 3TB drive to the RAID array. There was only one problem: the drive had some files on it from an old computer which I wasn't sure was backed up. I was anxious to …