Kubernetes Learning Path: Adding Worker Nodes and Distributing Pods I noticed something interesting about my cluster: my application pods were unevenly distributed. Some were running on the master...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Understanding Persistent Storage When I first started deploying applications on Kubernetes, I quickly ran into a problem: my database data kept disappearing every time a ...
Remote Access to Your k3s Homelab with Tailscale While working on my k3s homelab cluster, I ran into an interesting challenge: how could I access my cluster when I wasn’t home? I wanted to run kub...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Setting Up Ingress Controller for External Access After deploying my Rails application with PostgreSQL and SolidQueue workers in the previous post, I had a fully function...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Deploying Rails 8 with SolidQueue on Raspberry Pi k3s After setting up my 3-node Raspberry Pi k3s cluster in the previous post, I wanted to deploy something real—not just...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Setting Up k3s on Raspberry Pi After going through the first four parts of this series with k3d, I felt ready to take things to the next level. k3d is great for learning ...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Understanding Port Mapping in k3d In the previous posts, we’ve been using kubectl port-forward to access our applications. That works fine for testing, but it’s manual an...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Understanding Namespaces In the previous posts, we’ve deployed apps and managed configuration. But what happens when you want to run multiple environments on the same clu...
Kubernetes Learning Path: ConfigMaps and Secrets In the previous post, we deployed our first application to Kubernetes. But here’s the thing—real applications need configuration. Database URLs, AP...
Kubernetes Learning Path: Deploy Your First App I have been wanting to learn Kubernetes for a while now, and I came across a tool called k3d. It is a great tool that makes it easy to run Kubernete...