Introduction Azure DNS Zones is an inexpensive way to manage DNS records for your domains, even if you have dynamic IP. Back in the days, and before greedy Oracle took it over, dyndns.org used the (free) place to be if you had a dynamic IP and wanted to expose your home-network. Things have changed but fortunately offers like Azure DNS Zones are as inexpensive as a few Euro per month, and are easy to maintain with a little scripting. Read more

Introduction A few weeks ago I had a few days off and, as I will most probably spend my summer vacations in Balconia I started a little non-IT (ahem!) project to set-up my balcony as a green oasis for the summer: A little table and two chairs A comfortable chair to lie in the sun A rack and side-board for plants A few plants As I don’t have a green thumb, plants are of course somewhat risky, so I decided that I needed some indicator to help me understand when my plant need water and minerals. This post is about where that brought me. Read more

Introduction Since the Grafana Image Renderer plug-in is not supported anymore from Grafana 7.0 some changes are required to switch to the remote image renderer, and run it as a docker container. This post goes into the details of setting-up a remote image renderer for Kubernetes, on amd64, arm/v7 and arm64. Multi-arch build The official git repo only supports linux/amd64 at this moment but there is an issue for arm-support. Read more

Introduction In this previous post we have been exploring how to build docker images for multiple architectures. In this post we will look into streamlining this approach using docker buildx, both locally and in gitlab-ci. Step-by-step Enable buildx In order to use docker buildx you will need: A recent docker version; I am running 19.03.11 on linux enable the experimental features: export DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL=enabled Running docker buildx should show you: Read more

Introduction Since Kubernetes runs on the Raspberry PI I have been investigating ways to build my blog so that it can run on my x86 (Proxmox) as well as ARM Kubernetes cluster, composed of Raspberry PIs and an Nvidia Jetson Nano. This post will take you through my learnings of the taxonomy of architectures and platforms, as well as building docker images for multiple architectures. Architectures Well, I already knew that rpi has a different architecture than my Intel-based hardware, so let’s get into how these are named. Read more