I have a small home lab kubernetes cluster running k3s from rancher labs. As part of that deployment, the traefik ingress controller is included. This post is first in a series where I muddle through exploring the traefik ingress using a rust webserver. Covered in this post. Rust workloads on k8s with ARM and Docker. What will be running? Since my home lab cluster runs on 4 raspberry pi’s, some work will be needed to get a properly formatted image. For this I’ll be using docker buildx to build our images for multiple targets. This post will review the steps needed to get a working docker image deployed onto an ARM cluster using docker and kubernetes. ...

As a new home owner and nerd, I’ve been leaning into the “smart home” trend. Naturally, this makes for a great excuse to tinker with the latest IOT technology and to experiment with distributed computing. What better test bed for working with the ‘Service Mesh’ than coordinating micro-computer devices and sensors? To that end, I’ve chosen to use Rancher’s IOT focused kubernetes distribution k3s. I plan to write more about my setup in the future but, for now I’d just like to share my configuration for running the HomeAssistant platform on kubernetes cluster with a zwave gateway. ...