Big Idea The goal of this post will be to give an overview of IPv4 addresses. My aim is to do this incrementally by first covering the anatomy of an IPv4 address in its base 10 and binary representations. Second, I will look at CIDR block subnetting and subnet masks. Thirdly, I will append some helpful formulas for working with IP addresses. Background & History Before diving into the anatomy of IPv4 let’s turn back the page....
Big Idea In part 1 of this post, I covered the basics of getting started building my Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis. In particular, I laid out my goals and requirements, the build list, the network topology and setup, and the installation of K3s on each of the nodes. I recommend going back and checking out that post first if you haven’t already (Part 1: Building a Bare-metal Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pis)....
Big Idea From the start of my career, I have been fascinated by Kubernetes. I love distributed systems and the rich history of how we have arrived where we are today with distributed computing. We live in the ongoing evolution of our communal vision for cloud computing. In the early years, the vision was to present a homogenous Unix-like interface for managing an underlying collection of servers such as BOINC. Now, we live in the world of many small virtualized unix environments distributed across servers and sharing compute....