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Nomad to k8s, Part 17: Migrating my IoT Services

Wherein I migrate several IoT services over to Kubernetes. This is part 18 of my k8s migration series. This is going to be a short one. This weekend, I finished the migration of several IoT related services to k8s. Mosquitto is my MQTT broker, handling messages from several sources. For me, it’s only a listener - I do not have any actual home automations. Said mosquitto instance is scraped by mqtt2prometheus to get the data my smart plugs and thermometers produce into my Prometheus instance....

February 15, 2025 · 11 min · Michael
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Nomad to k8s, Part 16: Migrating Gitea

Wherein I migrate my Gitea instance from Nomad to k8s. This is part 17 of my k8s migration series. I’ve been using Gitea as my Git forge for a while now. What’s now the Gitea instance started life is a Gogs instance in 2016, when I had to downsize my Homelab to a Raspberry Pi 3B that couldn’t handle all the things I wanted to run on it. I decided to get rid of my Gitlab instance and exchange it for Gogs....

February 7, 2025 · 21 min · Michael
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Nomad to k8s, Part 15: Migrating my CI

Wherein I migrate my Drone CI setup on Nomad to a Woodpecker CI setup on k8s. This is part 16 of my k8s migration series. Finally, another migration blog post! I’m still rather happy that I’m getting into it again. For several years now, I’ve been running a CI setup to automate a number of tasks related to some personal projects. CI stands for Continuous Integration, and Wikipedia says this about it:...

January 26, 2025 · 27 min · Michael
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Nomad to k8s, Part 14: Deploying the Backups

Wherein I’m finally done with the backups in my Homelab’s k8s cluster. This is part 15 of my k8s migration series. Finally, I’m done. After months of writing Python code for my backup operator. Especially during the middle phase of the implementation, after the initial planning and design, it felt like a slog. Dozens of tasks, many functions to implement, and seemingly no end in sight. I’m rather elated to finally be able to write another post in the k8s migration series....

January 23, 2025 · 11 min · Michael
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Nomad to k8s, Part 13: Almost one year

Wherein I realize that I’ve been at this for almost a year now. This is part 14 of my k8s migration series. It has been quite a while since I last wrote a blog post about the migration. And I’ve realized today that it’s been almost a year since I made the decision to switch over to Kubernetes for my Homelab. On the 17th of August 2023, I posted about the HashiPocalypse....

August 15, 2024 · 4 min · Michael