MinIO is an object storage solution that provides an AWS S3-compatible API plus a neat WebUI for managing buckets than can be used for backup and restore, disaster recovery, archive, data lakes for analytics and storing output from data streams.

Gitea is an excellent and easy to use version control system. Today we are going to install it in our cluster as the next step in creating a build pipeline for our container images.

Now that we can expose our services outside the cluster it is time to look into setting up a build pipeline for our own images in earnest.

After completing the tasks from the last article we now have a cluster that can manage external ip addresses for our exposed services and that can assign persistent storage to our pods.

In the last blog we completed the installation of k3s on our cluster. Technically we are now good to start deploying applications (e.g. from docker hub). As it stands however, the cluster lacks the capabilities to

• load balance incoming requests to multiple container instances and to expose services outside of the cluster
• provide containers with persistent storage

After completing the basic prerequisite tasks I am now ready to install Kubernetes on the master and client nodes. There are a number of options for doing so :

In this article I am going to install and configure Raspbian OS on the cluster nodes.

After initially being quite excited about the possibilities offered by Kubernetes on GCP, i was quickly frustrated by the fact that operations kept us at arm’s length from playing on the Cloud Console (aka command line).
Turns out Google has to earn money, so all resources have to be paid for. On top of that every change is going through Terraform in a Gitops pipeline. It was quite disenchanting.