Kubernetes on RK1 / Turing Pi 2: Automation with Ansible, Cilium and Cert-Manager

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Note - This is just a high-level overview, I’ll likely follow up with a post dedicated on the CIlium/BGP configuration.

I’ve had my Turing Pi 2 board for a while now, and during that time I’ve struggled to decide which automation tooling to use to bootstrap K3s to it. However, I reached a decision to use Ansible. It’s not something I’m overly familiar with, but this would provide a good opportunity to learn by doing.

eBPF + Grafana Live for Metric Streaming

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Code Repo for this post can be found here.

Grafana Live is a real-time messaging engine built into Grafana v8 and onwards, designed to support real-time data streaming and updates. It allows data to be pushed to objects such as dashboard panels directly from the source. One of the benefits being near instant updates and no need to perform periodic refreshes.

Having experimented with eBPF recently, I thought this would be a neat thing to pair up - High performance packet analysis provided by Express Data Path (XDP), with instant visualisation provided by Grafana

Ebpf on Virtualthoughts

Kubernetes on RK1 / Turing Pi 2: Automation with Ansible, Cilium and Cert-Manager

eBPF + Grafana Live for Metric Streaming