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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My main.go file is now nearly 2000 lines of code... things are getting serious here! I think as boring as it is, I need to split this out into smaller packages....

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Well that wasn’t expected. It started as a stride / speed session which would have been around 6km. Then we grabbed a PB with a bit more.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thanks to @veeam I just got access to Linkedin Learning What are some of the good courses and content to get into? Anyone here got their own courses on that I should watch?

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Had a great day out yesterday at the home of Rugby. My local team made it to their final and got to play there yesterday. Despite the final result they have ticked a box that not many get to do. Jealous and proud of the Stamford Town Rugby lads and whole club for showing up

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Just need to enable something in the bios.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New Post: Taking a look at KubeBuddy for Kubernetes vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Current Status: Manually triggering my releases for Kollect.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

With Kollect, do we add additional platforms? Or do we now concentrate on the depth of each one, which ones are missing from here that would be a good candidate for a cloud inventory tool (the kollect folder is the og and is for Kubernetes cluster inventory)

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Busy evening here on my pet project, just a little Cloud Inventory tool that gathers your Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and now Terraform state file (with some more work on the latter.) github.com/MichaelCade/...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New Post: My Thoughts on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and the Power of Vector Databases vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I went to a car boot yesterday and decked out my crocs…. Never to be seen in actual public but fine for social media. Just need some more tech related charms.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Got into the home lab a little more this evening. This time focusing on KubeVirt and deployment via ArgoCD using the app of app methodology. Next up we need to clone some PVCs and create some VMs.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Thanks to Sidero Labs and Justin Garrison for this little home lab goodie... Perfect for accessing my Windows machine and was even able to mount on my desk

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I feel like a laggard here, having only just found dark mode on Linkedin

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Home Labbing, What services am I missing?

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Next session at Data On Kubernetes from the guys at Percona. Postgres has the Jack of all trades with extensions. I have recently been diving into PGvector

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Interested in hearing about Kafka and Strimzi. Never touched Strimzi, seems like an operator? #KubeCon

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Kicking off my day hearing about CrunchyData operator #KubeCon

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Not a great start to the day with the backup NAS in the home lab. I just added 2 x 4TB drives in this as well.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Pre tinkering in the home lab complete... now going to get going down to London Town for #KubeCon

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Sometimes #!/bin/bash is all you need to get a simple job done Download a load of Operating System ISOs into my vSphere content library...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I am using Heimdall as my #Homelab dashboard, are you using something different?

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Homelab update: 6/6 drives to complete the NAS upgrade it’s not the overwhelming TBs you see from some in their homelab but for me this is VM based storage only. RAID5 = 5TB useable will be plenty. Now to move everything back from the backup NAS and build some more.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What else should I add to the home lab services?

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Started some playing in the home lab

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As the world is all in on SaaS, I was recommended a book and this was the first one of 2025

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I just upgraded my home lab Veeam server to 12.3, A nice message telling me you can now protect Entra ID with it...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thinking about a video, showing the portability and ability of Veeam being able to protect and restore your VMs between different hypervisors and cloud based IaaS offerings... Where should I restore this VM > edit and move on >

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Do you ever look at a cluster and go... I don't remember deploying some of this stuff

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

How many people are triggered by this layout…

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A productive bit of time spent de cluttering and organising my @YouTube Watch Later playlist, Now instead of having one overwhelming long watch later playlist I have several more pointed playlists to get after.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Started a crazy journey to sort my @YouTube Watch Later list out, APIs are non existent it seems for the "Watch Later" playlist. We had to get creative, Java in the dev tools console of chrome > extract to .json and then wrote some Go code to categorise and create new playlists with those videos

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Well so much for creating a little tool to help better sort the 300+ watch later videos on YouTube... Looks like the API call is just not there...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Another fantastic email to open this morning was that was recognised on the OpenUK's 5th annual New Year’s Honours list buff.ly/40f8vwr

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tearing down the demo environment from last week... Snapshots = not a backup, but a great fast recovery point

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Finished the demos, time to delete the resources with that simple terraform destroy command. Still my absolute go to IaC tool is HashiCorp Terraform for all infrastructure and cloud provisioning.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I made the decision to test out restoring from a backup of a "Mission-Critical" app server on VMware vSphere to Proxmox.. in the home lab.. It worked..

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Be interesting to see how this goes..

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We are cooking, now we need to some talking head and voiceover work on these...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Spotted in the wild a Veeam Kasten data mover pod just wrapping up a process and scurrying back into its hide out after moving some data from A to B.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hey, I am running 5 x Dell Optiplex 7060s, spec in image below as well as ESXi version 8.0. Virtual Center lives as a VM on this cluster. The old NETGEAR ReadyNAS 716 Unit is providing 2-3TB of VMFS over iSCSI and NFS shared storage. (likely the next investment to upgrade/change) Anything else?

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Getting into the lab this evening... upgrading the talos Kubernetes cluster I have and trying to document the process like I would have back in the vSphere days...

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The --dry-run command means I can play it out without committing... having to make a few jumps here to get into the 1.30 release range I think talosctl --nodes 192.168.169.211 --endpoints 192.168.169.211 --talosconfig=talosconfig upgrade-k8s --to 1.28.6 --dry-run

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

That went quite smoothly... Now for the Kubernetes version update... I cannot just go from 1.27.7 to 1.30.3 so have to work out that path.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Upgrading my bare metal home lab @siderolabs.com talos cluster from an ancient 1.27.7 to something a little newer... I wonder what I can break in the process.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Little project plug. Kollect. The cloud inventory tool.

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Michael Cade @michaelcade.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The journey to start with NixOS... I seem to be constantly adding new apps and configuration and then rebuilding

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