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Road to CKAD

So I took some certs Ive recently gone trough the Kubernetes Administrator, Developer and Security Specialist certifications. In typical fashion I broke some stuff on my way to get there. The git references in this article are not up-to-date, as later deployments has made me consolidating multiple repos to a single infra repo. Preparation This is everything I used to prepare for these certifications: Time Some smol computing boys, three Raspberry PI 4 8GB was hurt for this blogpost Lectures with practical tests, I went with the courses from KodeKloud A not so big LXC running on Proxmox 7 Patience Time Proxmox and LXC For some unrelated infrastructure, I set up Proxmox....

Templating templates with templates

Over at Linuxserver we use Ansible for it’s convenient integration with Jinja, a templating engine for Python, along with its powerful framework to execute shell commands. With this we are able to automate quite a lot of work, like generating a uniform and recognizable README, or injecting files into the container(don’t worry, the files are committed and pushed to GitHub before the image is built) for some logic. In order for all this to work, most of the metadata is filled into two YAML files in each repository, jenkins-vars....

Visualization of a promtail dashboard in Grafana

Deploying Loki and Promtail Together With the TIG Stack

Now that I have set up this server as I want, the next step is to ensure it stays this way. One of the things I do to achieve this, is by setting up monitoring, and yes, it is very overkill for this setup. I went with a set of tools that I know, with some new additions which has been on my list of things to look into for a while, mainly Loki and Promtail....