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Where are the logs of my K3s?

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 Originally published in LinkedIn . After having my home k3s cluster up and running, one of the first tools that I need to have with any system is something that give me access to the generated logs, for solving the possible problems, for security, or just to see what is happening under the hood. Until now in all my K8s journey I have been doing searches in the logs generated in my kubernetes cluster with the simple visualizations generated by the kubernetes-dashboard or else with the kubectl command, for example: kubectl -n pro-jellyfin logs services/jellyfin kubectl -n pro-jellyfin logs deployments/jellyfin That works well and has helped me to solve almost all the problems that appeared when deploying my cluster. But the results are not something fancy and good looking, so I wanted to deploy something to access these logs more conveniently. There are many tools capable of fetching the logs, stori...
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Kubernetes at home

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 originally published in Linkedin . The system admin perspective, with the deployment of a cluster with K3s. The mini-PC, my single node Kubernetes cluster     Around the year 2000 it was very common to virtualize all the enterprise computation environments. Since then, many servers and network devices disappeared from the CPDs of many companies and the rows of racks emptied. We went from rows of racks full of equipment to today's almost empty cabinets. It was our decision to maintain the old classic technology, with bare metal servers doing all the work, or to move our workloads to virtualized environments. Some slowly, but we all virtualized our systems and now we see the virtualization as the easiest and more optimized way to operate and maintain our infrastructure fulfilling more than enough the levels of service. Following, the next logical step was to take advantage of this abstraction and we could even move our workloads to the ...
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