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In the last post we covered setting up dynamic shared storage with my NETGEAR ReadyNAS system I have in my home lab but any NFS server would bring the same outcome for you in your configuration. This post will cover two areas we will continue to speak to storage but we will cover object storage, I am going to use MinIO to be able to have an object storage option in my lab, I can use this to practice some tasks and demo things between Veeam Backup & Replication and Kasten and storing backup files. Also, in this post we will cover Helm and HelmRead More →

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In the last three parts we covered, starting from scratch and getting the platform ready, this was using some old hardware and creating some virtual machines to act as my nodes. But if you don’t have old hardware but you still wish to build out your cluster then these virtual machines can really sit wherever they need to, for example they could be in the public cloud but remember this is going to cost you. My intention was to remove all costs as possible as this system I am using is always running in my home network as it acts as my backup server asRead More →

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In the last post we went through creating our home lab Kubernetes cluster and deploying the Kubernetes dashboard. In this post we are going to create a couple more stateless applications. What is BusyBox Several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file. Commonly referred to as the “Swiss army knife tool in Linux distributions” I began by just testing this following a walkthrough tutorial but then later realised that this is a great tool for troubleshooting within your Kubernetes pod. You can find out more information here on Docker Hub. kubectl run myshell –rm -it –image busybox – sh Some things you didn’t knowRead More →

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In the last post we walked through the pretty basic way of getting our physical and virtual environment ready for our Kubernetes cluster Kubernetes Cluster At this stage we just have 3 virtual machines running Ubuntu on a flat layer 2 network. Now things get a little more interesting, in one of the last steps of part 1 we touched on installing kubeadm and this is where I am going to focus my installation and configuration, however you can use the more challenging approach and build out from scratch. Kubernetes the Hard Way on Bare Metal, Oahcran Kubernetes the Hard Way, Kelsey Hightower What isRead More →

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This series will document my journey on creating a Kubernetes cluster in my home lab using basically the hardware I have available. I do also have some RaspberryPi options but for the purpose of this series I am going to focus on x86 architecture. The reason for doing this is purely for learning I fully expect the majority of companies to take the easy button and leverage one of the many managed Kubernetes services possibly in the public cloud or from a service provider, the reason for this is because it really does offload the overhead of management and administration off to the service providerRead More →

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Veeam Backup & Replication introduces another new agent. This time it is the agent for MacOS. I had my 2013 MacBook Pro kicking about and thought why wouldn’t you add this to the home Veeam Backup & Replication server. The first thing to mention is that this is not a standalone agent this requires Veeam Backup & Replication or from a service provider perspective the Veeam Service Provider Console. There is also the ability to leverage MDM servers to deploy the package. Preparing the Agent for MacOS First up we need to get the package files to install locally on our MacBook Pro. Give yourRead More →

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Building out a new lab or refreshing your lab is tedious and a job nobody really wants to do, I have long been a fan of infrastructure as code and automation and we have had various projects where we have done similar things and highlighted this in some of our community speaking sessions and hopefully helped people. Now I am also not saying this is the right way but in my lab situation I wanted something I could easily automate the spinning up and down of my Veeam environment for testing, this really came about with the latest release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11Read More →

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It might just be me, but in everything where I am putting content together or using data that means something that is useful to me I automatically think about what happens if I lose it, can I withstand to lose that or is it important that I need a backup? This weekend I fully transitioned over to using Notion for my note taking app but it also is or can be used as an “All in One workspace” it also has a lot of team collaboration benefits but the first and foremost goal for me was to have a single place that I could storeRead More →

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First up you should head to the windows store to download the latest Windows Terminal Once installed open your new Windows Terminal and head straight to Settings This is going to open a .json file with the configuration settings, when you first install you will not see this block of configuration under defaults but this is what gives you the ability to add a background image / logo to your terminal session. The code is following, this will enable this same theme (image) over PowerShell, Command Prompt and Azure Cloud Shell.         “defaults”:         {             // Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles.             “backgroundImage” : “C:\\Users\\micha\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\\RoamingState\\black-on-green.png”,             “backgroundImageOpacity” : 0.75,             “backgroundImageStretchMode” : “fill”   If you then want to customise theRead More →

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This release gives Veeam the ability to protect workloads natively across the trifecta of the public clouds, Microsoft Azure, AWS and now Google Cloud Platform or GCP. This version 1 of the product gives you the ability to protect your GCP compute instances leveraging cloud-native snapshots and backups to Google Cloud Storage which in turn gives you the ability to restore those virtual machines back into GCP. With the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 and the addition of a third external repository option which is the object storage where Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform writes its backups to this enables forRead More →