Just playing around in the workshop and doing a Titan E3D Direct Drive extruder upgrade to my trusty CR-10v2. Do some back to back testing on base profiles, then give some TPU printing a shot.
Today we are going to do a quick run through of using Terraform 0.14 to provision a VPC (and associated resources), EKS Cluster, S3 bucket and build an IRSA Terraform module. We will go through IRSA and how to use it to give pods access to AWS resources at a high level. Join in and
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Today we are going to do a quick run through of using Terraform 0.14 to provision an AWS ECR (Elastic Container Repository) and associated IAM user with permissions to ECR. In order to build and push a docker image using CircleCI to create a very basic CI (CD) pipeline in code. We will spend about
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Kill some boredom Part 2, where we spend some time during the holiday weekend and play around. We will will go over a quick upgrade from the 1602 LCD Screen to a 2004 LCD Screen, add some LEDs, and then control the LEDs through a web interface. I stumble along, have some fun, and learn
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Today I sit down for a 30 min coffee session, to kill some boredom and play around. We will stumble through using some Python code to get some data from AWS, and the YouTube API to display on an LCD screen through a Raspberry Pi 4 using the Freenove starter kit. Join me while I
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Today I design and 3D print out a fairly simple Raspberry Pi 4 and Freenove start kit breadboard tray/holder to make my like a tad easier and better looking. Quick showing of print, and how well it works. Thingiverse link to STL: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4660032 Supplies used in this video: CC3D Silk Red PLA: https://amzn.to/35NQRUd CanaKit Raspberry
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In this video we go over a bit about the new Rancher Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager. We go through the basics of getting it installed, and setup. Come along for the ride and let me know what you think. https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/monitoring-alerting/v2.5/ https://juliusv.com/promslack/
In this video we go over a bit about the new Rancher Apps & Marketplace, and install the new Rancher-Backup solution. In order to do this we touch on adding helm repositories to Rancher, walk through setting up nfs-client-provisioner for persistent volumes, and go through the basic around the new Rancher-Backup. Join in and check
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Happy October everyone! In this installment of DevOps 5 Minute concepts we will be taking a quick look at the all new Rancher 2.5 (2.5.1) and some of the big new changes. New UI looks, deprecations, new tools for backup monitoring, etc. Quick overview just to touch on a bit of it, get more info
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Happy Friday everyone! Thanks for joining me today for 5 minute Friday and let’s get into checking out some tech. Today we are going to go through Rancher notifiers and how to use them with alerts. Documentation on Rancher notifiers: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/cluster-admin/tools/notifiers/ What are Rancher notifiers? Rancher notifiers are services that you can use in conjunction
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