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Nomad to k8s, Part 2b: Asymmetric Routing

Wherein I ran into some problems with the Cilium BGP routing and firewalls on my OPNsense box. This is the second addendum for Cilium load balancing in my k8s migration series. While working on my S3 bucket migration, I ran into several rather weird problems. After switching my internal wiki over to using the Ceph RGW S3 from my k8s Ceph Rook cluster, I found that the final upload of the generated site to the S3 bucket from which it was served did not work, even though I had all the necessary firewall rules configured....

February 4, 2024 · 10 min · Michael

Implementing VLANs in my Homelab: It's all fun and games until the trunk port arrives

It took me quite a while to finally get VLANs. In fact, it took me until about the middle of the migration to finally understand them. No idea why, as once I did understand them, they make a lot of sense. In this post, I will be going over my journey from a network with two subnets, the DMZ and everything else, to a more segmented setup with multiple VLANs....

January 10, 2023 · 18 min · Michael