No fluff here, just a quick writeup of how to rapidly deploy a multimaster kubernetes cluster using K3OS on vSphere. This can probably be done even faster by remastering ISOs, using packer or cloud-init directly to the VM but that’s something for the future.

As part of a bit of a cleanup at home, i’ve decided to move all my services behind a single centralised loadbalancer, which at this point happens to AVI just so i can get more day to day experience with it.

This blogpost discusses how the consumer-provider microsegmentation model works, its strengths and weaknesses, and why you might want to consider using this for your future micro-segmentation strategies.