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 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. ...
Wherein I migrate the last remaining data off of my baremetal Ceph cluster and shut it down. This is part 24 of my k8s migration series. I set up my baremetal Ceph cluster back in March of 2021, driven by how much I liked the idea of large pools of disk I could use to provide S3 storage, Block devices and a POSIX compatible filesystem. Since then, it has served me rather well, and I’ve been using it to provide S3 buckets and volumes for my Nomad cluster. Given how happy I was with it, I also wanted to continue using it for my Kubernetes cluster. ...
A couple of weeks ago, I migrated my Jellyfin instance to my Kubernetes cluster. This involved copying my approximately 1.7 TB worth of media from the baremetal Ceph cluster to the new Rook Ceph cluster. And I’d like to dig a bit into the metrics and try to read them like the entrails of a slain beast during a full moon at the top of a misty mountain. Just this much, the portents don’t look good for one of my HDDs. ...