Chris McCall

Chris McCall - DevOps / Platform Engineer

DevOps / Platform Engineer

Chris is a DevOps / Platform Engineer transitioning from Software development. Proficient in Web applications, iOS development, Android development, and user interfaces. CKA certified, with a growing focus on Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure automation.

Zarf: Air-Gapped Deployments

Zarf: Air-Gapped Deployments

Deploy applications in an air-gapped environment, or just archive applications along with all of their needed resources using Zarf. Since Zarf already has a tutorial on deploying an application using Helm charts, I thought I'd do one using regular manifests. For this example, I'll walk

GitOps: Getting Started with Helm

GitOps: Getting Started with Helm

When I first started working in Kubernetes I tried to avoid Helm charts for my installs. I wanted to make sure I was learning how all the parts went together, so I wrote out all my resources in static yaml. That worked out well while studying for the CKA, but

Manage Servers with Ansible & GitLab Runners

Manage Servers with Ansible & GitLab Runners

Automate configuring your local Kubernetes hosts with GitLab runners. Describe and document your configuration to keep those machines in check. Setting Up the Runner On Gitlab.com, go to your project > Settings > CI/CD Settings > Runners > "Create project runner" to create a new runner.

TLS at Home with Cert-Manager, CloudFlare, and GatewayAPI

TLS at Home with Cert-Manager, CloudFlare, and GatewayAPI

Improve your client-side experience with TLS on a home cluster. Even if your cluster isn't directly exposed to the internet, having certificates that are automatically accepted by clients is nice to have. You can find deals on domain names for less than $15 a year, just pay

Cilium L2 Announcements

Cilium L2 Announcements

Use urls instead of IPs and port numbers on your home cluster. With Cilium L2 Announcements we will be able to describe the routes we want to serve with the Kubernetes gatewayAPI and automatically have those routes available via url on our local network. # Update cilium to enable l2announcements cilium

Macbook Pro Node

Macbook Pro Node

Setting up a node to handle media server workloads on my home Kubernetes cluster. Since this Macbook has a discrete GPU I thought it would make a good media server. Unfortunately it is a T2 Mac, so installing Ubuntu is not as straightforward as the other machines on this cluster.

Dell Control Plane

Dell Control Plane

My friend had given me this Dell laptop a while back, he was about to throw it out and I couldn't pass up a free laptop. Up until now I had just used it to play with some amateur radio stuff. It's more recent than my

Mac Mini Node

While going over the content for the CKA I wasn't satisfied with just learning on something like minikube. I really wanted to get in there and see what it took to put something together a little more permanent, something I could use to run actual workloads. I have