I’ve been using Home Assistant for exactly one month now, and I’ve developed some clear opinions in that time. Before I get too far into it, a word on what Home Assistant is. Home Assistant (or HASS for short) is a home automation tool that runs on a server, raspberry […]
I wanted to measure temperature and humidity and the options to do so in pre-built packages that integrate with Home Assistant all fell short, so I made my own. Why would you want to do something like this? Here are some examples of things you can create: Put a sensor […]
Here’s the scenario: You have a cell phone, a streaming device and a laptop and you want to send their traffic over a VPN without having to configure the devices themselves. Why would you want to do this? Here are some reasons: You don’t want sites on the internet to […]
Recently I changed up my security system. Previously I was using MotionEye to watch my security cameras and when motion was detected in certain areas of the frame, it would save the video to a NAS. I then had a custom browser for these videos I wrote in PHP. (yeah…) […]
First, the screenshot of the final product: Now, how did I do it? First I purchased a few smart plugs. I got 3 Kasa KP115, which are very reasonably priced. Then I set the smart plugs up on my network like normal using the app (and upgraded the firmware, which […]
I started using Atlantis at the behest of a friend who urged me to use it instead of GitHub actions for managing Terraform repositories. Configuring it was slightly more involved than I expected, partly because I configured Atlantis via Terraform which I had never done before but also because I […]
I touched on Longhorn in https://qtosw.com/2021/my-kubernetes-cluster-experience/ but it’s worth digging into further because the concept is really cool. Longhorn works by having nodes with storage provide that storage as iSCSI devices or Kubernetes volumes. It’s similar to CephFS in this way from what I can tell from research, but where […]
Image credit: https://medium.com/coryodaniel/working-with-kubernetes-jobs-848914418 (Links to code for my environment at the bottom) I didn’t like how my main unRAID server was a single point of failure, so I set out to make a Kubernetes cluster. Initially I used Rancher to create it and it was very easy – simply install […]
I recently spun up a couple hosts as Kubernetes workers and interestingly, one of them worked fine but the other would not resolve kube-dns queries. On the node itself, running this command would fail: nslookup kubernetes 10.43.0.10 In kube-proxy logs I found this: E0209 04:40:18.259923 1168 proxier.go:1571] Failed to execute […]
I approached possible disaster scenarios during COVID-19 a lot like a hurricane that you never knew when it was going to hit or how long it was going to last.
