Ceph – Jonathan Gazeley

Kubernetes Homelab Part 5: Hyperconverged Storage (again)

Part 4 of this series was supposed to cover hyperconverged storage with OpenEBS and cStor, but while I was in the middle of writing that guide, it all exploded and I lost data, so the blog post turned into an anti-recommendation for various reasons. I’ve now redesigned my architecture using Rook/Ceph and it has hadContinue reading “Kubernetes Homelab Part 5: Hyperconverged Storage (again)”

Building a hyperconverged Kubernetes cluster with MicroK8s and Ceph

This guide explains how to build a highly-available, hyperconverged Kubernetes cluster using MicroK8s, Ceph and MetalLB on commodity hardware or virtual machines. This could be useful for small production deployments, dev/test clusters, or a nerdy toy. Other guides are available – this one is written from a sysadmin point of view, focusing on stability andContinue reading “Building a hyperconverged Kubernetes cluster with MicroK8s and Ceph”