Preface In the guide, I will target utilizing consumer-grade graphics such as the GTX and RTX series of graphic cards from NVIDIA for container workloads on Kubernetes. If you have read through my previous posts , I am migrating the services I used to host on plain old docker-compose to Kubernetes. One such workload was Jellyfin, which was hobbling when using its transcoding feature on the puny Intel Iris Plus 655 integrated graphics....
Quick Look Repository: Stats: Initial Approach: Ingress Controller I started out with a simple goal in mind that expanded a lot as I proceeded to code it. I wanted to build an Ingress Controller that does just one thing. It should read the annotations from my Ingress Resources, look at the ConfigMap and the target domain and modify the ConfigMap to add the target domain to it. FYI, an Operator is a combination of a Custom Resource and a Controller for it....
Motivation The one source of trouble I have with Cloudflare Tunnels is that I cannot have a wildcard or a dynamic way to add and remove services. I needed to SSH into the server, edit the configuration file by hand and restart the service. Not done yet, I needed to copy the configuration changes and make the same on the other redundant server running on a backup ISP link. Still not done, I needed to add an entry on the Cloudflare Dashboard CNAMEing the hostname to the tunnel’s domain....
Background If you have read my previous posts, I actively deploy and maintain multiple services for personal use, running from my home, accessible securely from the internet. I use docker-compose to keep all the 40+ services running smoothly. It works fine but is not a perfect way. If one of the containers goes down and becomes unhealthy, I would not know until I tried to access the service, but it was not....
Motivation Docker recently updated its terms making the Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows free only for personal use. Any business with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million annual revenue needs to buy its Docker Business subscription. For me, the Docker Desktop was already a hit and a miss. It was great when it worked but a pain to troubleshoot when it did not. Also, it does not bode well when they make software based on open source tools paid after it was free for a long time....