Posts tagged: k8s

💭 postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices

2025-07-06T11:31:19Z

Here’s my thought on postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices

This is the OS you can install onto an old phone to run linux on it - using this OS you could set-up a cluster of phones. I’m interested in this someday, although today the to-do list is too long to worry about it

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💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

2025-07-06T11:30:17Z

Here’s my thought on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

Came across a blog and article on using a mobile OS to self-host a cluster on old phones… I happen to keep several old android phones lying around and although I’m not presently super interested in figuring out an android/arm based homelab, I am excited for the next coming years when I’m sure it’ll only get easier, phones will only be more powerful, and perhaps we’ll be running full blown CV pipeline in k8s clusters running on Pixel devices!

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💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

2025-06-20T11:53:33Z

Here’s my thought on matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

This article was longer than I had time to really consume but a heading caught my eye that I wanted to agree with - the author says k8s 2.0 may consider HCL instead of YAML. And as a recent terraform / open-tofu adopter I gotta say I would be ALL FOR THIS

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Deployments are not StatefulSets

2025-01-15T18:07:57Z

I was debugging some ArgoCD stuff earlier today and I love using k9s to explore my k8s resources.

The TLDR is that I put some bad env vars in the global values for my ArgoCD pods, this caused the webUI to hang. An easy way to push things through is to open k9s, view the Deployments, and edit the env vars there so the pods can be in the right state to restart and pickup the changes (you’ve obviously fixed the values file already right?)

Well the Notification Controller was the pod hanging, and I couldn’t find it in the Deployments view! This blew my mind… until I realized that it was a Stateful Set.

So, this is not a comparison of the 2 - this is just a note to say that all I had to do was find the StatefulSets in k9s and do the same workflow for editing what I needed to edit to get the pods into workable state while working on the values file…

💭 Do you really need Kubernetes?

2024-12-30T02:06:41Z

Here’s my thought on Do you really need Kubernetes?

The other shoe just dropped

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💭 Do you need Kubernetes?

2024-12-29T16:15:43Z

Here’s my thought on Do you need Kubernetes?

do you though?

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Customize K9s

2024-05-06T11:57:07Z

To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies

OUT="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/k9s/skins"
mkdir -p "$OUT"
curl -L https://github.com/catppuccin/k9s/archive/main.tar.gz | tar xz -C "$OUT" --strip-components=2 k9s-main/dist

Then edit your k9s config

# ~/.config/k9s/config.yml
k9s:
  ui:
    skin: catppuccin-mocha
    # ...or another flavor:
    # skin: catppuccin-macchiato
    # skin: catppuccin-frappe
    # skin: catppuccin-latte

    # ...or the transparent variants:
    # skin: catppuccin-mocha-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-macchiato-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-frappe-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-latte-transparent

Other k9s skins are available here