Arch Linux is extremely well documented so I highly recommend to read the Arch installation guide. This installs the Gnome desktop environment, but one can easily leave a DE out or choose another one. This is tested on a Thinkpad t460s, t490s and a Dell Precision 5550. Partitioning Checkout the current partition scheme …

In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), nodes of the same configuration are grouped together into node pools. These node pools contain the underlying VMs that run your applications. The initial number of nodes and their size (SKU) is defined when you create an AKS cluster, which creates a system node pool. To support …

Normal users are assumed to be managed by an outside, independent service. Kubernetes does not have objects which represent normal user accounts. Normal users cannot be added to a cluster through an API call. However, any user that presents a valid certificate signed by the cluster's certificate authority (CA) is …

Here is how to quickly install Kubernetes with ingress on your laptop. I use this to test and create operators with the Operator Framework. Still learning though. I was first using K3s but then I discovered Kind which seems to be even faster, deployment wise. Also it leaves a smaller footprint because it runs in a …

This post is about installing lightweight Kubernetes (K3s) on our new vm. K3s The previous post was all about being able to install Kubernetes quickly. For that I will use k3s from Rancher because it is fast. Let's go! Prepare We do this for testing so we can safely disable the firewall and SELinux on our CentOS vm. …

Here is a post about how to create virtual machines with Vagrant and the libvirt plugin. Why use libvirt as a vagrant provider Because when on a modern Linux distro running Gnome, chances are it's already there! I use Vagrant extensively to run quick, short lived virtual machines to test and try out things. I always …