Writing on homelab
7 posts tagged homelab.
Talking to Claude Code through an Alexa
An afternoon experiment: wiring an Amazon Echo to drive Claude Code on my own Mac. The fun was not the voice, it was designing a planning conversation around an LLM that is too slow to answer inside Alexa's eight second window, and then thinking about what a real product would need.
claude-codealexahomelabautomationRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: Load Balancer (Issue #6)
Give bare-metal services real external IPs with MetalLB as a Layer 2 load balancer for the Raspberry Pi cluster.
kuberneteshomelabraspberry-piRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: NFS Storage (Issue #5)
Set up an NFS server on a worker node and wire it into the cluster as default storage with PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim manifests.
kuberneteshomelabraspberry-piRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: Start the Cluster (Issue #4)
Install Kubernetes on the Raspberry Pi cluster: containerd, kubeadm, the Flannel CNI, then initialise the master node and join the workers.
kuberneteshomelabraspberry-piRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: SSH into the Nodes (Issue #3)
Find your Raspberry Pi nodes on the network with nmap and connect over SSH, both by password and with RSA keys.
kuberneteshomelabraspberry-piRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: OS Installation (Issue #2)
Flash Ubuntu 22.04 onto SD cards and prepare each Raspberry Pi node: locate the disk, write the image with dd, and enable SSH.
kuberneteshomelabraspberry-piRaspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster: Equipment (Issue #1)
The first in a series on building a Kubernetes home lab with Raspberry Pi: the prerequisites and the equipment to get started.
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