nick rondeau

nick rondeau

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster at Home

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster at Home

I've had the itch recently for a really good homelab project. After looking at the other server I have, it's running almost 50 containers. It's main use is Plex. It runs everything from this blog you are reading, to our family recipe book. Why

Drone CI Workflows for Encrypted Backups to AWS S3

Drone CI Workflows for Encrypted Backups to AWS S3

Recently I started self hosting Vaultwarden and wanted a nice automated way to run backups, but also encrypt them. I was already using Gitea , and after some research Drone CI seemed like an excellent fit to get me started. I want to configure a pipeline to grab the docker config

Using Docker Swarm on AWS with Ansible & Terraform

Using Docker Swarm on AWS with Ansible & Terraform

Docker Swarm is an open-source container orchestration platform and is the native clustering engine for and by Docker. It allows you to manage multiple containers deployed across multiple host machines. One of the key benefits associated with docker swarm is the high level of availability offered for applications. In a

CI/CD using Docker, Travis CI, ECS, and Python

CI/CD using Docker, Travis CI, ECS, and Python

I am going to take you through the steps setting up an environment for automated building, testing, and deployment, using containers and services hosted in the cloud. What we need: * GitHub * Docker and Docker Compose installed * Docker Hub * Travis CI * Amazon Web Services (AWS) When a commit or a merge

VPC Peering Between Two AWS Accounts Using Terraform

VPC Peering Between Two AWS Accounts Using Terraform

Continuing with Terraform, it’s amazing how easily it cuts through tedious tasks, such as setting up more complicated infrastructure. Taking something you would assume would take hours, into minutes and easily replicated if need be. The end result of this project will be completing a VPC peering connection request

The OSI Model - The Seven Layers Explained

The OSI Model - The Seven Layers Explained

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a conceptual framework used to understand and standardize the functions of a telecommunications or computing system without regard to its underlying internal structure and technology. Its design is structured into seven distinct layers, each with a specific role in the process of transferring

Deploying an AWS ECS Cluster of EC2 Instances With Terraform

Deploying an AWS ECS Cluster of EC2 Instances With Terraform

This project will utilize two major cloud computing tools. Terraform is an infrastructure orchestration tool (also known as “infrastructure as code(IaC)”). Using Terraform, you declare every single piece of your infrastructure once, in static files, allowing you to deploy and destroy cloud infrastructure easily, make incremental changes to the