Installing Ingress-Nginx Controller with Helm

In my previous post, I showed how to install helm CLI on a server/instance running AlmaLinux 9. Now, I will share how to use helm to install the Ingress-Nginx Controller for a Kubernetes cluster. We install a package known as “chart” from a Helm repository. Initially, there is no repo, and can be seen below: $ helm repo list Error: no repositories to show In order to install Ingress-Nginx Controller, I first need to add a new repository. ...

September 26, 2023 · 2 min · 374 words · kenno

Installing HELM Cli on AlmaLinux 9

Recently, I decided to pick up learning Kubernetes again after completely being absent from this world for many years. In this post, I’ll document how to install Helm CLI on AlmaLinx 9. Helm is like a package manager for Kubernetes. Helm CLI can be installed on your local machine, it does not to be installed on the Kubenetes node. However, in order to interact with your Kubernetes cluster, you’ll need to also have kubectl command as well as properly configured it to interact with your Kubernetes cluster. ...

September 26, 2023 · 1 min · 206 words · kenno

How to restart KDE Plasma without logging out

I’m running KDE Plasma Version 5.27.8 on Fedora 38. It’s been very stable and Plasma crashes a lot less comparing to the old day when running Plasma 5.0 on (older) Kubuntu. Anyway, today, my Plasma’s taskbar froze and I needed to restarted. Instead of logging out and logging back in, I found a way to restart the Plasmashell. Here is the command which worked for me for this Plasma version: ...

September 24, 2023 · 1 min · 97 words · kenno

IPv6 addr-gen-mode = default - But what is that default value?

On Fedora 38, the version of NetworkMnager is 1.42.8, and the “default” setting for ipv6.add-gen-mode is default. The possible value for ipv6.add-gen-mode is eui64, stable-privacy, default-or-eui64, and default. This blog post is my attempt to understand a bit more about this IPv6 setting addr-gen-mode. On my workstation, the NetworkManager connection in use in this post is called br0. Here are are some commands to display the version number of NetworkManager and the (default) current setting of ipv6.addr-gen-mode: ...

September 17, 2023 · 4 min · 848 words · kenno

Configure IPv6 for Proxmox Host via Slaac

The Proxmox server running at home only has an IPv4 statically assigned to it. Since I’ve been trying to get all my connected devices at home to get IPv6 assigned, I figured I should try with this Proxmox server next. I’m running Proxmox VE 8.0.4, and it’s based on Debian 12 (bookwarm). The settings for its network interfaces are stored in /etc/network/interfaces: root@pve:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet static address 192.168.1.8/24 gateway 192.168.1.1 bridge-ports enp2s0 bridge-stp off bridge-fd 0 Here is the output of vmbr0 device: ...

September 16, 2023 · 3 min · 551 words · kenno