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, …

Installing Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

Update September 2025:

There is now a script provided by Docker.com to simplify the installation of Docker.

As with any script you download from the Internet, make sure you are aware of what the scipt does before running the script!

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh …

When away from home, it's always nice to be able to access devices, servers, services, on my home network.

In addition to accessing my home network's resources, if I route all of my traffic through my home network, I get the added benifit of avoiding insecure wireless networks.

There have been more than a few …

I wrote previously about my frustration with trying to get the default Ubuntu desktop to run in a VNC session, one that would install as a service, and work after a reboot.

After spending more time than I'd like to admit, I threw in the towel, and went with the Mate desktop (Gnome 2 based), which worked without a …

So I needed a way to connect to a Linux VM via VNC.

There is a lot of information out there on how to do it, but most of it talks about using less resource intensive desktop (xfce4).

I wanted the full desktop experience, and as both my Linux box and my full-time desktop are both connected to a 1GB switch, I wasn't …

I created an Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (VM) on my KVM system, and shortly after I started using it, I realized that I hadn't allocated/created a large enough hard drive for my use.

I have a "master" Ubuntu VM that I clone when I need an Ubuntu VM, which is set up and configured they way I like it.

I had …