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Kubernetes is well established and the variety of tools to work with it can be overwhelming. This post will provide an overview of how I’m planning to deploy workloads on K8s for my home lab. I’ll review the primary tool set that I’ve found the most useful, explain what I... [Read More]

With the world dealing with COVID-19 by social distancing many gaming groups are left looking for ways to game while keeping their distance. This post will provide an overview for installing Foundry Virtual Tabletop, a software specifically designed to support playing table top games remotely with a group. I found... [Read More]

Juju bundles define configuration and relations of a group of software. In this post I’ll review a bundle that deploys a secure IRC client and VPN. Combining multiple charms in a bundle make this setup very straight forward. By the end we’ll have a persistent IRC bouncer that can run... [Read More]

This post builds on a previous post to go into details of the python-pytest charm template. In this post I will review the layout of the charm and how to write/expand the testing for your charm. Writing code with testing in mind from the start can make testing significantly easier.... [Read More]

Charms are very flexible and can be written several ways and even in different languages. Having good template limits those options but gets you started faster. This post will cover a template we’ll be using for the pirate-charmers charms that get you started with unit and functional testing out of... [Read More]