Development Upgrading my K8s cluster from 1.19 to 1.20 Somehow I installed 1.19 as my MicroK8s cluster version. Of course I want 1.20. This should be easy because of the version skew support in K8s: So what
kubernetes Using Synology NFS persistent volume for my K8s hosted SonarQube I'm already running SonarQube on K8s. But I took a shortcut there using hostpath persistent storage. So the pod must run on a specific node, this is suboptimal. Since I
Development Cloning VMs in EXSi 7.x without vCenter Since I'm not running vCenter in my 2 ESXi 7.x node homelab, I'm missing out on some features. Actually the only one I really miss the ability to clone
Development Easy way to get a self signed openssl certificate in ESXi I'm running two ESXi servers but I'm not using vCenter because I find it to be too resource intensive. And to run my K8s host VM's I don't really need
Development SonarQube analysis fails on K8s setup After getting SonarQube up and running on my K8s setup, I started moving my project analysis to that setup. To find out that it is not working at all: 413
Development SonarQube on my MicroK8s setup Next up in my migration to K8s is SonarQube. SonarQube needs persistent storage so the first thing to enable is the storage add-on in MicroK8s: sudo microk8s enable storage This
Development MS Sql server on K8s for my github runner My Github runner is running only unittests right now. But I also have a test set that are sort of integration tests that need MS Sql server to run. Of
Development MicroK8s observability in Lens So, I'm running a three node MicroK8s cluster and I am migrating my containers running on my Synology to it. I am already running my github runners on there. I
kubernetes Migrating from Synology Docker to K8s I've been using the ability to run containers with the docker functionality on my Synology for some time now. I've upgraded the memory to 8Gb just to be able to
Development Fix for TKG UI installer blank screen The other day I was trying to install a Kubernetes cluster using the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG). But I ran into a problem that I cannot find anywhere documented, so
diy Table saw dolly I got inspired by this video from Wesley Treat: And decided that I need something like that for my table saw. Currently the table saw has no dolly at all,
Electronics Wii Nunchuck WASD controller for COD Warzone Wii Nunchuck WASD controller for COD warzone.
Electronics Programming ATTINY85 with mySmartUSB light from Arduino IDE The other day I was trying to program a ATTINY85 with a mySmartUBS light programmer that I have laying around. This one: mySmart USB lightThis programmer is not a standard
Electronics My Ramps 1.5 setup part II In this part I got the display and hardware programmed to work. So now it is time to get the motor running. The leadshine DM556 driver has only 4 terminals
Electronics My Ramps 1.5 setup I wanted to see if I could use the RAMPS board to drive my big-ass stepper motors via my lead shine drivers. So I ordered this cheap-ass ATmeaga2560: With a
EV Testing my openEVSE on 3 phase I finally took delivery on my Model 3, 2 months late (don't get me started). And ofcourse one of the first things I wanted to try is charging it on
Development Package my custom Cloud Foundry buildpack for offline use I've made my custom buildpack here but that only works online, I want to make this an offline version. This should be simple, but initially I had some trouble getting
Development Applying self-signed certs to your Cloud Foundry GoRouter So, you've build your own homelab hosted Cloud Foundry environment, but forgot to apply a proper certificate to the gorouter. Let's fix that.. First we need to make a certificate,
Development Using environment variables from Cloud Foundry in Angular with the staticfile_buildpack Ofcourse I want to follow the 12 factor app rules as much as possible, and ofcourse I also want to deploy my apps in Cloud Foundry. When it comes to
EV Real life testing my openEVSE My friend Quinten stepped by and since he owns a Nissan Leaf this was the perfect opportunity to really test my openEVSE. We set the amps to 16 and plugged
EV Solving OpenEVSE display bug So.. after boot all seems fine with my openEVSE: But when it starts charging this happens: This comes from this this code: if (curstate == EVSE_STATE_C) { time_t elapsedTime
EV Bench testing my openEVSE It is time to bench test my Arduino openEVSE. So I uploaded my version of the firmware onto it and waited for the bootscreen. And sure enough: That looks promising,
EV Getting OpenEVSE firmware to compile With all the hardware for my openEVSE done, I started focussing on the software part. That is the openEVSE firmware. Because I only need the basic functionality, I started with
EV Guest EV in the workshop My friend Quinten bought a broken down Rebbl New Bettle EV last week. It's parked outside my garage to take the (DC) motor out, it does not run anymore because
EV Populating OpenEVSE arduino shield With all components delivered, I started populating my OpenEVSE Arduino Shield. I'm just building these two circuits: one for switching the relay from pin D8: And one for sending the
