I successfully moved my home assistant server from a Raspberry Pi into my kubernetes cluster using the kubernetes resource definitions in (https://github.com/drpump/k3s-home-assistant/). TLS is configured and my home assistant instance is now accessible through secure HTTPS connections using a standard, host-routed https URL.
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Deploying Mosquitto MQTT to k3s with Traefik TLS ingress
This article describes how I deployed mosquitto MQTT with TLS into my k3s cluster. I used an article by Maxime Moreillon as my starting point but needed to adjust the ingress to work with the Traefik ingress controller installed by k3s.
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Grappling with software development on an iPad Pro
Software development on an iPad Pro is possible but not straightforward. Here’s how I set up a Raspberry Pi companion device for software development on the iPad Pro.
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Giving kids control of an EC2 instance via discord
This article describes how I created a discord bot to start/stop an EC2 instance. I’ve used this bot to give my kids and their friends the ability to start/stop a minecraft server running on EC2 when they want to play.
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Fire up kubernetes from iOS using python
This article shows how to create and use a cloud-hosted Kubernetes cluster using Python scripts on an iPad. The eventual goal is to be able to use an iPad as an end-user device for development of applications running in a cloud-hosted kubernetes cluster.
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A writable kubernetes cluster for software development
Create a kubernetes cluster that includes a writable, persistent NFS service so that you can develop applications inside kubernetes.