It started, as these things always do, with something small. Brave kept crashing. A tab would freeze, the page would go unresponsive, and eventually the whole browser would fall over. Annoying, but hardly a mystery — browsers crash, you shrug, you restart. Except it kept happening. Two or three times a

GitHub - jdtate101/remote-lab-desktop: Desktop in a container for airgapped access scenariosDesktop in a container for airgapped access scenarios - jdtate101/remote-lab-desktopGitHubjdtate101 A containerized remote desktop: Ubuntu 24.04, XFCE window manager, accessed via a browser (noVNC). kubectl and helm are preinstalled. $HOME is a named volume, so anything in

GitHub - jdtate101/kasten-harbor-upload: Simple scripts to run on either podman or docker to pull a specified version of kasten and push it to a local image repositorySimple scripts to run on either podman or docker to pull a specified version of kasten and push it to a local image

GitHub - jdtate101/check-vbr-kasten: Check VBR connectivity from worker nodes for Kasten accessCheck VBR connectivity from worker nodes for Kasten access - jdtate101/check-vbr-kastenGitHubjdtate101 If you've ever tried to stand up Veeam Kasten's integration with a VBR backup repository, you'll know the first thing

A guide to installing OpenEBS LVM LocalPV CSI on SNO with snapshot support, using a locally attached disk. Tested on OCP 4.20, OpenEBS LVM LocalPV Helm chart, vSphere 7. Prerequisites * Single Node OpenShift (SNO) cluster * A second disk attached to the VM (in this guide: /dev/sdd, 200GB) * Helm

Connecting OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) VMs directly to a physical L2 network, when Single Node OpenShift runs as a VM on an ESXi host. Architecture Physical Network (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) └── ESXi vSwitch (promiscuous mode) └── SNO VM (ens224 - second vNIC) └── br-multus (Linux bridge via NMState) └── KubeVirt VM

This document covers the setup of Kasten K10 pre/post backup hooks for a MongoDB instance running inside a KubeVirt VM on OpenShift. The hooks use a Kanister Blueprint to issue fsyncLock and fsyncUnlock commands around the Kasten snapshot, ensuring crash-consistent backups. GitHub - jdtate101/kubevirt-kanister-mongodb-bp: Example blueprint for mongodb

GitHub - jdtate101/cluster-monitor: Simple multi cluster monitor with email alertsSimple multi cluster monitor with email alerts. Contribute to jdtate101/cluster-monitor development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubjdtate101 A lightweight Docker daemon that watches all your Kubernetes clusters and emails you the moment something stays broken for more than

https://github.com/jdtate101/kasten-flr-ui A guided web UI that takes Kasten's native FLR API from a raw kubectl workflow to a point-and-click recovery wizard — with integrated YARA + ClamAV scanning before you restore a single byte. Written by James Tate — Kasten Senior System Engineer — 2026 Kasten K10'

GitHub - jdtate101/MailArchive: A simple offline storage app for GMail on K8S, designed to archive you emailsA simple offline storage app for GMail on K8S, designed to archive you emails - jdtate101/MailArchiveGitHubjdtate101 Sync every Gmail label to .eml files on a persistent volume, search across the lot with

GitHub - jdtate101/Arcadians: A Simple HTML5 clone of the classic BBC game ArcadiansA Simple HTML5 clone of the classic BBC game Arcadians - jdtate101/ArcadiansGitHubjdtate101 A faithful clone of Acornsoft's Arcadians, complete with swooping dive-bombers, the original intro music reconstructed via FFT analysis, and a PostgreSQL high

https://github.com/jdtate101/kasten-summary-service A self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring Kasten K10 backup jobs across multiple Kubernetes clusters — querying CRDs directly, deployed as a single container on OpenShift, no Kasten API credentials required. If you run Kasten K10 across multiple clusters, the built-in Kasten UI gives you a per-cluster

https://github.com/jdtate101/kasten-alerter-service A lightweight Kubernetes CronJob that queries Kasten's backup CRDs across multiple clusters, deduplicates failures, and sends an HTML email when something goes wrong — no dashboard required. The Kasten Backup Summary Dashboard is great for when you're actively looking. But you shouldn&

Table of Contents 1. Part 1: Installing Node-RED on Kubernetes 2. Part 2: Installing OpenClaw on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3. Part 3: Integrating Node-RED with OpenClaw Part 1: Installing Node-RED on Kubernetes Prerequisites * A running Kubernetes cluster (k3s, OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, etc.) * kubectl configured and connected to your

Overview HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes runs as a StatefulSet. When Vault is sealed, its pods report as 0/1 not ready — which causes Kasten K10 to either skip the workload or flag the backup as unhealthy, since it expects all pods to be in a running and ready state before

Veeam Kasten has been very focused on file level recovery of late, now with the release of v8.0 we officially support FLR on VMs in SuSE Harvester and RedHat OpenShift through the use of Veeam Backup and Replication. However what if you wanted to do FLR on native applications

So if you are like me (and that might be a stretch...as I'm a complete tech nerd!!) you store a lot of your own media, in films and TV series and host your own media server. Think running your own Netflix with thousands of films and TV

I recently wrote an article covering off how we handle the backup & restore of Kafka via the Strimzi operator. A colleague of mine mentioned the other popular messaging application, RabbitMQ, and wondered if it would work in the same fashion, so I decided to spin up an MQ cluster

Kafka Data Protection & The Problem Kafka is a very popular platform for data flow and pipelining within the enterprise space, especially in Kubernetes environments, where data needs to be shared often between namespaces, pods, applications and clusters. It does pose challenges when assessing it's data protection needs.

The Problem One of the greatest advantages of running containerised applications under Kubernetes is that it's very easy to just spin up applications from places such as docker hub almost at will. Therein lies the problem. Whether the application is exposed internally or externally, it will typically require

Overview With the ongoing controversy around Broadcom's acquisition of VMWare and subsequent changes to pricing and partner eco-systems, many customer are looking at their options around their virtualisation provider. Most solid alternatives consist of the same type 2 hypervisor technology, products such as Nutanix, Hyper-V and Proxmox. However

I recently fell foul of the docker rate limiting that was introduced back in 2020. It specifically rates anonymous pulls to 100 per IP endpoint within a 6 hour period. Now normally this is not an issue....except if you have a power outage overnight!!! My lab UPS shut everything

So my old Z620 is getting a bit long in the tooth and I've noticed that some of the more intense jobs I have running are taking a very long time to execute, so I have decided to do a bit of an upgrade cycle. As my lab

One question I always get asked is how do we do offline installs. Imagine a situation where your business blocks certain websites and you cannot download an application container images to your local laptop for pushing to an air gapped repository. If your k8s cluster is fully air gapped, it

I’ve been running a home lab now for a number of years and it was always a bit amateurish in my own eyes, mainly based around VMs and docker. With branching out into the Kubernetes world, I switched most of it up to run on k3s, but found the