Alex EllisUpgrade your Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot driveYou can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…·6 min read·Nov 20, 2020--11--11
Alex EllisThen he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?”When someone asks “Is Kubernetes right for us?”, how do you respond? Where do you start? Let’s talk about IT modernisation.·8 min read·Aug 22, 2020----
Alex EllisLightweight ad-blocking with dnsmasq and Raspberry PiDid you know that you can put that spare Raspberry Pi of yours to work as a caching DNS server and ad-blocker using off-the-shelf packages?·11 min read·Aug 7, 2020--1--1
Alex EllisReset your lost password using Docker and SSHHave you forgot your password for a machine in your home-lab, for a Raspberry Pi, or an important EC2 VM? Here’s how I reset my own…·4 min read·Jul 19, 2020--6--6
Alex EllisKubernetes 1.18 broke “kubectl run”, here’s what to do about itWere you confused by the deprecation notice on kubectl run? Perhaps unsure? Well now it’s finally gone, here’s what you need to know.·8 min read·May 12, 2020--7--7
Alex EllisIn-depth review and comparison of the Raspberry Pi High Quality CameraAs a keen amateur photographer, I was immediately drawn in by the announcement on the Raspberry Pi blog about the new High Quality Camera·11 min read·May 4, 2020--12--12
Alex EllisinLevel Up CodingAdd a status LED to your Raspberry PiIn this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add an LED to your Raspberry Pi so that you can show the status of an external system or API. The…·6 min read·Apr 21, 2020--1--1
Alex EllisFive years of Raspberry Pi ClustersI’ve been writing about running Docker on Raspberry Pi for 5 years now and things have got a lot easier than when I started back in the…·7 min read·Mar 30, 2020--7--7
Alex EllisinLevel Up CodingBuilding a TODO API in Golang with KubernetesThis is post is aimed at newcomers to Kubernetes or Go who want to learn by building a practical REST API with SQL and Go.·13 min read·Mar 26, 2020--1--1
Alex EllisBill of materials for my home officeWhenever I share a photo of my workstation in my home office, I tend to be asked things like “What’s that keyboard?” and “What brand of…·9 min read·Mar 25, 2020--1--1