Self-hosting Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi
Your complete guide to self-hosting applications Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi including: hardware, HA, Ingress, storage and Operating Systems.| Alex Ellis' Blog
OSS, Cloud Native & Raspberry Pi| Alex Ellis' Blog
Exploring the capabilities of the Intel N100 Mini PC for work and self-hosting as an alternative to public cloud.| Alex Ellis' Blog
I reminisce of the days of i386, Slackware Linux, and forgotten plaintext UNIX utilities that are still on modern Macs today.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Your complete guide to self-hosting applications Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi including: hardware, HA, Ingress, storage and Operating Systems.| Alex Ellis' Blog
What is the best live demo you've ever seen? Do you still remember it now? Learn how the best do it and how to get an IP address that will travel with you.| Alex Ellis' Blog
MicroVMs need bare-metal or nested virtualisation with /dev/kvm. But what if that's not available? The PVM virtualisation framework may be the answer.| Alex Ellis' Blog
I cover why as a one monitor kind of guy, I found a portable monitor essential - both for streaming and for debugging the home lab.| Alex Ellis' Blog
As part of actuated, we needed to debug and explore VM images for GitHub Actions via SSH. I'm now making that available to my GitHub Sponsors for free.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Here's my workflow for setting up the Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from NVMe for headless use.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Learn how and why I turned GitHub's APIs into a time-sharing supercomputer from the 1970s to execute modern batch jobs.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Self-signed certificates are common within enterprise companies. But how do you distribute them and enable their use in Kubernetes as a user and a vendor?| Alex Ellis' Blog
You can use our new CLI written in Golang to calculate the total number of build minutes you're using across an organisation with GitHub Actions.| Alex Ellis' Blog
I wanted to run a container for a customer only once, but the UX just wasn't simple enough. So I created a new utility with Golang and the Kubernetes API| Alex Ellis' Blog
For someone who runs the Raspberry Pi as a server, build agent and for Kubernetes, how does the new version stack up? And should you upgrade?| Alex Ellis' Blog
Why would you need to use a mirror for a container registry? And is there a way to use two or more? Find out from the actuated team.| Alex Ellis' Blog
This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.| Alex Ellis' Blog
I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.| Alex Ellis' Blog
I wanted to see if I could run Linux on the new Dev Kit 2023 from Microsoft. The answer is kinda. Find out what I've tried and if it's right for you.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Learn an easier way to install tools for GitHub Actions and for your own workstation too. Plus a trick or two for dynamic inputs to custom GitHub Actions.| Alex Ellis' Blog
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world's smallest API-driven cloud - to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites| Alex Ellis' Blog
Learn how to access your applications on Kubernetes and the differences between a LoadBalancer, NodePort, port-forwarding and Ingress through examples.| Alex Ellis' Blog
