Linux - The Next GenerationBasics Kubernetes/k3s is using the Container Storage Interface (short CSI) to provide persistent storage. More details about that can be found here. Options By default k3s/rancher ships with a storage class called “local-path“. According to k3s documentation an alternative is “longhorn” (see here). But there are plenty of other options based on NFS, Ceph (both […]
When trying to get first access to an OpenStack based kubernetes cluster, you’ll first need to create a correct ~/.kube/config file. OpenStack however only provides you with a collection of files you need to assemble yourself: However you’ll need all that components in the right place in a single file. Here’s a short version of […]
While experimenting with open-webui I was looking for options to use local LLM resources for image creation. Besides the commercial models, openwebui offers two alternatives : Automatic1111 and ComfyUI. As ComfyUI is mentioned in several other places I decided to have a look at it. Installation In order to install ComfyUI I was looking for […]
Install updates See here. -> “Updates” -> “Repositories“ Disable these repositories: Instead add the PVE “No-Subscription” version, if needed also add “Ceph Squid No-Subscription“. Go back to “Updates” and press “Refresh“, then “>_ Upgrade“. Terminal will show – confirm updates when requested. When finished you may need to reboot the machine (press “Reboot” button in […]
While creating new docker instances I recently often got the following error message: In the beginning it helped to prune old network configs: But now I’m at a point where this does no longer help. Maybe the number of subnets is limited? So I currently got 33 subnets configured for docker … sounds close enough […]
Some time ago I tried to use my AMD iGPUs (not supported by AMDs ROCm) for LLMs. However I didn’t succeed. Now I read some benchmark for the newest AMD Strix Halo systems performing quite well in some LLM tasks using vulkan instead of ROCm. Building vulkan enabled llama.cpp (using docker) Building llama.cpp using docker […]
This seems to apply to the docker version only, and maybe only to older ones that were installed some time ago. What happened Everytime I tried to access the “Insights” menu item on my docker hosted Unifi network application I got a short popup telling me “An error occured while trying to retreive logs” Further […]
While trying to get my Nextcloud instance to talk to an OpenCloud Test instance I had to dig a little deeper into the unterlying protocol: Open Cloud Mesh (or short OCM, details s. RFC-draft). TL;DR: For everyone keen to get things up and running: I didn’t succeed (yet). And though I really like the idea […]
As mentioned earlier I was going to replace thiss-mdq with pyFF for my SAML federation metadata query service. Comparison thiss-mdq / pyFF On its project site thiss-mdq describes itself as The thiss-mdq is a minimal implementation of MDQ that only supports JSON data. while pyFF considers itself “a SAML metadata aggregator written in python”. Both […]
Docker hub recently announced an upcoming request limit to their registry. So in order to reduce the amount of requests issued there, the idea of a caching proxy solution comes to mind. Possible solutions Fortunately there are some projects already working on that problem. However there are different approaches. Some of the projects I found […]