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kubectl get pods response on a Kubernetes cluster provisioned using kubeadm on Ubuntu 22.04

Simple Single-node Kubernetes Cluster via kubeadm on Ubuntu 22.04

There are many tools out there to provision single-node Kubernetes clusters, but kubeadm is the way to go for a production-like set-up. Although it is more difficult to create a cluster with kubeadm, you can tweak the cluster to your needs with its configuration options. Following this post, you can easily create a Single-node Kubernetes Cluster using kubeadm on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Install Mozilla VPN RPM from Binary on Fedora

Mozilla VPN is a VPN solution that uses the WireGuard protocol. Unfortunately for Fedora users, there’s no official guide on installing it for Fedora. That said, since 6th July 2021 there are Mozilla VPN RPM packages on GitHub Actions. This article will show you how to get these RPMs.

Mozilla VPN screenshot showing location selection and VPN switch
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Silly but This Is a WordPress Blog Running on Kubernetes

You probably think it’s overkill to use Kubernetes for a WordPress blog with less than a thousand monthly visitors. While this may be true, it’s totally worth using Kubernetes for the bragging rights. This is a WordPress blog running on Kubernetes!

Kubernetes running WordPress and MariaDB
Sources: https://pixabay.com/images/id-5718352/ and https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cargo-freight-container_3795063.htm
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Easy Backups to Google Drive on Linux

I’ve recently set up automated backups to Google Drive on my CentOS 7 Linux VPS to protect my blog posts from data loss. I don’t know why it took so long for me to care about backups of my own data. I chose to back up to Google Drive since I already have a Google One plan that has plenty of available storage space.

Screenshot from Google Drive showing 4 compressed files backed up in rclone/backup folder
Four compressed files backed up in a Google Drive folder
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UEFI and GPT Mess with Windows 10 and Linux

Operating System not found

I’ve recently bought a Dell XPS 13 9350.

Problem

I tried installing Fedora on it but the installer was not able to detect the SSD. I tried disabling UEFI and it worked. The problem was that as soon as I disabled it I was no longer able to boot into Windows 10. I tried different combinations and every change that resulted in Fedora installer seeing the drive, broke Windows 10 boot setup. I thought I would be able to enable UEFI after the setup and use Windows 10 whenever I needed it and decided to install Fedora.
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WordPress Backup Script

Recently I remembered that I had this little handy script that I used to backup my WordPress blog. The script contains only 2 actual commands.

I used nice while compressing / uncompressing the files to avoid CPU throttling since my blog is running on a shared hosting server.

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Merge PDF Files Easily on CentOS

Did you scan a document and need to send it professionally? Do you want to combine multiple PDF files to store them as a single file? This article shows how to merge PDF files on CentOS. It should also work in other Red Hat based operating systems such as Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS Stream.

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Minecraft Server Memory Issues on Linux

Are you having memory leak issues with your Minecraft Server on Linux? The solution might be in this post. I’ve been running a MC server on my VPS (HeartInternet) for the last 4 months. It was all good until we started exploring the map. The MC server was randomly being killed and this message was coming up in our screen:

Internal Exception: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

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