K3s and Longhorn I’ve long run a server (or servers) in my home. There’s been many different tech stacks used over the years, but I’ll save that saga for other posts.
Today, without even providing the backstory for my current HomeLab adventures with K8s (Kubernetes), I’m going to dive into the specifics of a storage related problem and my quick and dirty solution.
However, I suppose it’s at least important to know I’m running K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, and for my magical storage solution on Kubernetes, I’m running Longhorn.
In my ongoing adventures of playing with the Chromebox as a firewall, I eventually found a reason to use stock Ubuntu 16.04 instead of VyOS.
For the most part, devices just work as you’d expect under Ubuntu. Even my USB ethernet network interface (NIC) devices work fine. But I eventually noticed a problem.
By default USB NICs under Ubuntu 16.04 (which uses systemd & udev) are named “enxABCDEF123456” where ABCDEF123456 is the full MAC address of the device.
This is a bit of a follow up from my last post. I’ve still got my Asus Chromebox. I’m not running ESXi any more… but something I do want to try out is VyOS. Why? Well, my original intent when purchasing the Chromebox was to play around with it, but then I really did expect it to replace my home router. I’ve used pfSense for a long time, but I’m curious about VyOS because I know several people using EdgeRouter Lite which uses EdgeOS, a fork of VyOS.
I recently stumbled across the ASUS CHROMEBOX-M004U. It’s a Chromebox, which is cool in its own right, but I was interested in using it’s dual-core Celeron Haswell CPU, expandable RAM (up to 16GB), and M2 Sata storage for other purposes.
First things first, you’ve got to enable the box to run things other than ChromeOS… Thankfully that’s well documented ( http://kodi.wiki/view/ASUS_Chromebox ), so I won’t go into detail at this time.
I’ve used the unix filesystem search utility find for many years. Though, like most things, until forced to learn its deeper secrets, I generally get by with only the most basic knowledge.
One of the cool things about find is that you can specify a search and then execute an action on the results, all in one command.
This example is probably my most common use of find:
This means: find, in the current directory (.