After building my new server capable of running SmartOS, it was time to give it a spin! If you've only built desktop machines, its hard to express how awesome IPMI KVM is.

I've been reading about SmartOS for awhile now and have wanted to build a home server that would let me run VM's with ZFS for the main file-system. Getting rid of my home theater PC and wireless router (which has been annoying me with its flakiness for months) was also a goal.

I've been using tumblr for awhile and while its useful when posting random stuff I should've posted to Facebook instead (images, links, videos, etc.), writing my text in HTML was just icky.

The latest helm (version 3) needs its repo updated so it can find useful things like the nfs-client-provisioner chart. helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com Then we can install our containers NFS mount point.

Install helm configured to point at the AWS Storage Gateway NFS share: helm install sgbackups stable/nfs-client-provisioner --set storageClass.name=s3-backups --set nfs.server=192.168.2.21 --set nfs.path=/prox-container-backups --set nfs.mountOptions="{nolock,hard}"

To get the Argo Tunnel working in Kubernetes, we need to first install helm on the computer we run kubectl from. I use a debian based system for this, so these commands are the appropriate ones for a recent debian that has snap.

An overview of Home Automation, Home Assistant, its use of Python 3, and local control over your home.

A personal journey from using Python, to Go, and back again.

Using kazoo, an OSS Python library for distributed coordination with Apache Zookeeper. (A slight update of the PyCon talk.)