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I’ve had problems with the stability of my Kubernetes control plane ever since I migrated it to three Raspberry Pi 4 from their temporary home on a beefy x86 server. I will be going into more detail about the problem first, describe the Pi 5 with NVMe a bit, and then describe the migration itself. The problem I’ve noted in a couple of the last posts that I’ve started seeing instability in my Kubernetes control plane. The main symptom I saw were my HashiCorp Vault Pods going down regularly. This was pretty visible because I have not automated unsealing for Vault, so each time the Pods are restarted, I have to manually enter the unseal passphrase. ...

Wherein I write down things that don’t feel like they should be their own post. My blogging notes are starting to really fill up with small topics I’d like to write about, but which don’t feel like they warrant their own post. On the other hand, they also don’t feel ephemeral enough to just be a Fediverse post. So I decided to introduce the Sammelsurium, which is the German word for a random collection of things. ...

Wherein I go over my future plans for the Homelab, now that the k8s migration is finally done. So it’s done. The k8s migration is finally complete, and I can now get started with some other projects. Or, well, I can once I’ve updated my control plane Pis to Pi 5 with NVMe SSDs. But what to do then? As it turns out, I’ve got a very full backlog. I’m decidedly not in danger of boredom. ...

Wherein I try to draw a conclusion about my migration to k8s. This is the final part of my k8s migration series. After a total of 26 posts, this will be the last one in the migration series. On the evening of April 13th, after one year, three months and 26 days, I set the final task of my k8s migration plan to “Done”. I made the first commits for the migration on December 19th 2023, shortly after starting my Christmas vacation that year. It was the addition of the first VMs, for the control plane nodes. I already did some experimentation in November, but I don’t count that as time spend for the migration. ...

Wherein I migrate my control plane to the Raspberry Pi 4 nodes it is intended to run on. This is part 26 of my k8s migration series. This one did not remotely go as well as I thought. Initially, I wasn’t even sure that this was going to be worth a blog post. But my own impatience and the slowly aging Pi 4 conspired to ensure I’ve got something to write about. ...