A common recommendation for learning Linux, DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, and related infrastructure is to build a homelab with several physical machines. Since hardware prices are high, I'm wondering…
I help maintain shared Kubernetes clusters across Amazon, Azure, and Google cloud environments. Right now, workloads use each provider's native storage, but application teams choose from whatever StorageClasses…
A Debian 13 virtual machine running PostgreSQL under a heavy write workload suddenly stopped. It runs on OpenStack with KVM and Cinder, likely backed by Ceph. Both the…
I run a production Kubernetes environment without access to cloud storage and currently use nfs-utils with the nfs-server service for shared storage. Over time, I've experienced several serious…
I'm looking for effective methods to back up S3 buckets when using Rook-Ceph. In my previous experience with Minio and RustFS, I could just rsync or use restic…
Hey everyone, I just realized that the MinIO repository was archived on February 13. I've spent the last two days on a hunt for a K8s-ready S3 object…
I'm working with a setup of about 8 Linux servers running Fedora Server 41, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to share users' home directories…
Hey everyone! I'm looking for some reliable methods to back up a live database directory from my local disk to a Ceph cluster. Unfortunately, we don't have the…