So this little thing arrived last week. Ever since I got my Unraid box up and running 24/7, I just felt I needed more control over the entire network. This is primarily because my existing home router would randomly drop packets and anyone who has planned to work from our home won’t be able to do so. As for the specs, it’s a fanless appliance running a quad-core Intel 12th-gen J6412 (2 GHz base, 2....
While working on creating my own kubernetes cluster I initially wanted to go with the official documentation for the installation process. But then I thought why not explore other distributions that can even simplify and reduce the time of the whole deployment process. This is when I came across k3s which claims to be an easier way of installing and managing kubernetes. K3s makes use of containerd as the default container platform but I opted to go with docker since I want to become more familiar with it....
Unraid is a hypervisor by itself. So aside from just running docker containers, you can also spawn VMs. I wanted to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 so I could run the GNS3 remote server on it. Ubuntu Server Installation You can download the Ubuntu iso image from this page. It’s either you download to your local machine or using Unraid with the help of the CLI or some docker app. While waiting for the download to complete....