Using minikube is a great way to learn Kubernetes, without all of the overhead/complexity of installing a full fledged Kubernetes deployment.

In a nutshell, minikube is local Kubernetes.

As Kubernetes/minikube are container orchestration tools, you need something to run the 'pods'.

For minikube, this can be Docker, …

These instructions/screenshots were from an UDM Pro running:

UniFi OS UDM Pro 1.11.0 UniFi Network Application 7.0.23

Why

From the FBI field office in Portland:

Your fridge and your laptop should not be on the same network.¹

If those cheap "smart" lightbulbs you bought off Amazon get compromised because of …

I have a Pi-hole Docker container running on my NAS, but DNS functionality is too important to have a single point of failure.

If something were to happen to my NAS, my home network would have no DNS resolution, which brings the network to it's knees.

I had been using a Raspberry Pi as my second DNS server, running …

Upgrading Pi-hole is easy:

pihole -up

However, this doesn't work if you're running a Docker container.

docker exec -it pihole pihole -up
Function not supported in Docker images

To get Pi-hole Docker container upgraded, you have to force Docker to pull the latest Pi-hole version and redeploy the container.

docker pull …

Let's Encrypt will issue you free SSL certificates, but you have to verify you control the domain, before they issue the certificates.

The 2 major ways of proving control over the domain:

1. Create a specific page on your webserver that they can reach.
2. Create a temporary DNS TXT record.

I went with option #2, as my web …

Configuring a Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) on Ubiquiti's UniFi network manager is easy, if you use on of the configured providers that show up in the drop-down service.

I'd been using No-IP for a number of years, but decided to switch to Cloudflare as it was free, and given Cloudflare's reputation, reliable. …