Adding a Distributed Filesystem to the Cluster

One of the reasons I set up my cluster was that I’m running out of space on my NAS. I don’t want to buy a whole new chassis, and while I could have put individual file shares on each cluster node, that would be both inconvenient and not provide any data redundancy without a lot of brittle home-rolled hacks to rsync data from node to node. And since distributed file systems are a thing, I’d rather not resort to hacks. ...

June 23, 2019 · 5 min · 1025 words · Me

Parts list for the ARM cluster

I realized I forgot to include a parts list for the cluster in my ARM cluster post (all prices are as of March 3rd, 2019), so here we go. ...

March 1, 2019 · 1 min · 160 words · Me

Getting an ARM kubernetes cluster up and running

I recently decided to set up a Kubernetes cluster in my basement, partly because I’d never set a cluster up from scratch by myself, and partly because my existing NAS was beginning to run out of headroom. ...

February 17, 2019 · 7 min · 1419 words · Me