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Using Tailscale for home server

For those of you who are new to my blog, I had written about my home server setup (hydra) a few months back. Since then I’ve tweaked the setup a bit and made some changes to how I organise/deploy applications inside my cluster. I’ll be talking about the updates made so far and t…

Webinar on #Unschooling

Nandini, Advay and I were guests on a webinar hosted by Aarohi Life Education about #Unschooling and #OpenLearning. We were asked to share our journey of #Unschooling Advay on the Webinar and be available for open Q&A. Preparing for the Webinar, actually being on it and taking q…

DNS Lookups in Kubernetes

One of the primary advantages of deploying workloads in Kubernetes is seamless application discovery. Intra cluster communication becomes easy with the concept of Service which represents a Virtual IP backing a set of Pod IPs. For example, if vanilla service needs to talk to a c…

Resize PVC in Kubernetes

Well, the title is self explanatory so let’s begin! First off, we need to ensure that the StorageClass which was used to provision the PVC has the correct configuration. From the official docs: You can only expand a PVC if its storage class’s allowVolumeExpansion field is set to…

sshuttle - A better ssh tunnel

The Motivation# Sometime back I had to access a Kubernetes API server which was firewalled to a private VPC network. I didn’t want to setup a separate bastion instance just to access this cluster, cause TBH bastions are kinda redundant in K8s as every task can be performed throu…

Use netcat for port scanning

Quite often you’d need to check if a port on a target node is opened or blocked by firewall. I’ve always used telnet to test that but it has a few drawbacks: Need to use dirty hacks in shell scripts to auto close the connection. Also, telnet outputs some errors to /dev/stdout in…