In the past couple of weeks I was able to source matching mini USFF PCs which upgrades the mini homelab from 14 CPU cores to 18! Along with this I decided to attach a 2.5Gbe NIC and a 1TB NVME on each device to be used for Ceph allowing for hyper-converged infrastructure. Ceph on its own is a huge topic. It has so many moving parts-monitors, metadata servers, OSDs, placement groups to name a few....
A couple of days ago I started facing Longhorn issues after rebooting all three nodes. For some reason my adguard deployment was stuck trying to mount the PV. I’m running my adguard deployment with RWX and this means it’s mounted over NFS. Events: Type Reason Age From Message ---- ------ ---- ---- ------- Warning FailedMount 45m (x3 over 56m) kubelet Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[adguard-conf-pv adguard-work-pv], unattached volumes=[], failed to process volumes=[]: timed out waiting for the condition Warning FailedMount 16m (x23 over 61m) kubelet MountVolume....
In relation to my previous post where I mentioned that I will be starting a new journey learning IaC or Infrastructure-as-Code, today I am very happy to record this milestone of finally achieving a stable kubernetes cluster created with the help of Ansible and Terraform. At this time of writing, so far only two services have been migrated from the docker environment into the new K8S cluster. That is my DNS which is also replaced now by AdguardHome (sorry Pihole!...