Adding longhorn with rancher-ui While planning out what I wanted to use in my cluster I thought having Gitlab would be fun, but I needed a good way to supply persistent storage to install gitlab fr...

Adding Rancher-UI - Incase you want a GUI to help with managing your cluster Rancher UI can be installed on your cluster with the helm chart, however it will install its own load balancer and ingre...

Day 6 - Deploying Cert-Manager with ansible Cert-manager is a Kubernetes native certificate management controller. It helps automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various cer...

Day 5 - Deploying Traefik with ansible After creating the VMs and using the site.yml to create the k3s cluster, its time to deploy stuff on it. One of the reason I started down this road was to hos...

Day 4 - Automating VMs and deploying k3s I decided that it was time to create some tasks that could build and destroy VMs for my k3s cluster, after I had to tear it all down a couple of times. I fo...

Day 3 - Creating a CI/CD flow and adding Nautobot Apps Previous Posts, what did we do? In the previous posts I setup flux, organized the folders for pulling the Nautobot container, and configurein...

Day 2 - Creating your own custom container There are a lot of great Nautobot apps that compliment and extend the usefullness of Nautobot, and I want to include some of those into my deployment. Fir...

Day 1 - Setup Flux and deploy Nautobot to your cluster Now on to learning how to setup Flux with a k3s cluster and install the Nautobot App. Boot strap FLux validate the current context of your Ku...

Hello I am joining the #100DayOfHomeLab challenge and as part of this effort I am going to use that time to teach myself something new. I love the Nautobot and use it all the time at home and at w...

To recap a little bit, we are using Nautobot as our network source of truth. Ansible no longer needs static host_vars or a static inventory. All of these details can be pulled dynamically from Naut...