containers – Dicking with Docker

Over-engineering my website with Kubernetes

By Simon Weald | 18th March 201830th May 2020 by Simon Weald

A solution in need of a problem Like all good sysadmins, my personal website has been a ‘coming soon’ splash page for quite some time. According to the Wayback Machine, it’s been this way since some time in 2014. As I’m sure many can sympathise with, there are always far more interesting and shiny things to be experimenting with than building a website.

Deploying Kubernetes 1.4 on Ubuntu Xenial with Kubeadm

By Simon Weald | 17th November 201630th May 2020 by Simon Weald

With the 1.4 release of Kubernetes, Google have made instantiating a cluster a whole lot easier. Using Kubeadm, you can bring up a cluster with a single command on each node. A further command will create a DaemonSet which brings up a Weave mesh network between all your nodes.