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TLDR: Cert-manager automates SSL certificate issuance, renewal, and management for Kubernetes, making it easy to secure Ingress resources with valid certificates from providers like Let’s Encrypt. Introduction In the last post I went over setting up a real SSL certificate that could be used by services running on Kubernetes.
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TLDR: Purchase a domain, use LetsEncrypt to generate a wildcard cert for subdomains, modify DNS to point to local servers, use SSL cert within Kubernetes deployments Introduction There are a lot of reasons why you might want to setup SSL certificates on your LAN. The most prominent being that you
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Introduction Most of the articles and tutorials I came across while attempting to learn Kubernetes had to do with setting it up in a cloud environment. My goal was to self host everything so that I could get a better understanding of how Kubernetes worked and so I could have
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Introduction Kubernetes has a package management system called Helm which is similar to other technology package systems such as npm and nuget. With it you can package your Kubernetes application. Using helm allows for repeatable installations by Kubernetes administrators and it also helps simplify customizations to your installation via a
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Introduction I use Kubernetes (k3s) in my home lab in order to replicate an enterprise environment. My reasoning behind this was to learn Kubernetes, have a suite of project management/CI CD/redundant/scalable services that would either directly transfer to my next career opportunity or would in it of