Podman Vagrant

 Posted on May 11, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  112 words  |  

Still working at home during the pandemic, the Bank has indicated that there will be no COVID-19 layoffs until the end of the year for which I am grateful. In addition we will be working from home until probably October. During the pandemic, I wanted to come up to speed on new technologies and have started working with Podman and created a vagrant file to build a Centos 8 based Podman installation. [Read More]
podman  container  vagrant 

k3s Vagrant Cluster

 Posted on March 18, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  112 words  |  

Life continues in the time of COVID-19. To continue my work with k3s I’ve created a new Github project to build a development k3s cluster to use on my new iMac box (with 64Gb of memory I might add). Right now the project is in a very early stage and it builds on plenty of work of other contributors on other Github projects. The Project Head on over to k3s-vagrant-cluster and have a look. [Read More]
kubernetes  k3s  vagrant 

macOS Change Shell

 Posted on February 21, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  163 words  |  

I recently purchase a 2019 27" iMac from the Apple refurbished store to use as my main desktop machine at home. Compiles now fly and I love the 5K screen resolution. The only problem is that I reinstalled Catalina from scratch and realized that Apple has changed the default shell from bash to zsh. The version of bash installed is very old so I decided to upgrade to a newer version of bash (as of this writing, 5. [Read More]
macOS  shell  development 

k3s Traefik Dashboard

 Posted on January 29, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  255 words  |  

Traefik is automatically deployed as part of the k3s Kubernetes cluster. To enable the dashboard for Traefik follow these instructions. Enable the Dashboard The dashboard is not enabled in the base k3s distribution. Enable the dashboard by editing the traefik.yaml manifest at /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests: sudo vi /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/traefik.yaml Add the line dashboard.enabled: "true" in the spec: set: section. Remember this is YAML so match the indent of the previous line. Save the file and k3s will deploy the dashboard service, you can see the service with the kubectl get service command: [Read More]
kubernetes  k3s  traefik 

k3s Cluster

 Posted on January 26, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  142 words  |  

As a follow on to my Kubernetes cluster build from earlier this month, I decided to try out the k3s lightweight Kubernetes install on my same cluster. Install Fedora Server 31 I used Fedora 31 as my base OS and installed the standard server. The k3s installation requires the legacy cgroups and iptables found in older OS versions, Fedora has decided to upgrade to newer versions of cgroups and iptables in 31. [Read More]
kubernetes  k3s 

Kubernetes Cluster Install

 Posted on January 8, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  518 words  |  

I have a number of Intel NUC systems that I purchased off ebay a while back and wanted to use them to create my own personal Kubernetes cluster. I’ll be using the cluster to test out new container-based products as well as securing the installation based on the CIS Benchmark for Kubernetes. Install Fedora Server 31 I am using Fedora 31 as my base OS instead of something like CoreOS for a number of reasons, most notably that I want to install some other software that is not container-based. [Read More]
kubernetes 

Using Git Submodules

 Posted on December 6, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  305 words  |  

In setting up the stad.us blog and website, I had the opportunity to start using the git submodule command for the first time to work with submodules. I don’t pretend that there are other ways to use submodules, but these are the commands I use the most. Add Anything can be added as a submodule to an existing git project as long as the submodule is itself a git project. In my case, I forked the Beautiful Hugo theme for this Hugo based website. [Read More]
git  example 

Welcome

 Posted on December 5, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  85 words  |  

Welcome to the new home of Software Tool & Die. Here you will find my occasional musings on software development, security research, kubernetes, containers, and just about anything else that is on my mind. Software Tool & Die is my consulting company based in Denver, CO. When I decide to strike out on my own and work 1099, STAD comes to the rescue. This site is rendered using a static site generator called Hugo with a customized theme. [Read More]
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