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OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX
I needed to create a small OKD/OpenShift setup so I could play around with it and get comfortable with using it, developing on it and administering it. Additionally I wanted it to be somewhat similar in setup to what we do at work. This was originally based on the excellent post by Craig Robinson, but… read more…
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Restored OKD Cluster Not Starting
I run my OKD cluster on a set of VMs in VMware ESXi. My backups consist of shutting down all VMs and then copying them somewhere else – so full shutdown and backup. The cluster setup was done using the steps outlined in OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX. This has worked well and I… read more…
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Enable ssh in and out of ESX
By default an ESX server doesn’t allow you to ssh to it or ssh from it to another host. Being able to ssh to an ESX host can be very useful to do base unix functions including moving files around and so on. Being able to ssh out and in particular to another ESX host… read more…
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MythTV add-on for Kodi hangs at 0%
Around about the 26/3/2021 the Windows 10 MythTV add-on for Kodi stopped working. I had seen similar problem before, Kodi MythTV addon fails to load except this time it didn’t load at all whereas previously it was stuck loading at around 40%. This time around it didn’t seem to connect to the MythTV server at… read more…
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Add Catalog Sources To OperatorHub
If you have followed my post OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX you find that when you look at the OperatorHub in OKD you only see the community operators. The problem appears to be that an out of the box OKD install only has the “Community Operators” enabled. The trick is to enable the rest.… read more…
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Reinstate deleted user OKD 4.5
I had an OKD 4.5 user which authenticated against htpasswd. This user was a member of a group and admin role binding. I then deleted the user through the web console: The problem came when I wanted to re-enable the user. Adding a user in OKD involves adding an authentication mechanism, IDP, such as htpasswd,… read more…
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Test DNS connectivity
I was setting up OKD on a separate VLAN and wanted to used the OKD DNS service but it just wasn’t working and I felt it was a connectivity/firewall issue but could not find a tool to test. I was testing on my Windows 10 desktop connecting to a Fedora DNS server. Port Query I… read more…
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Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap
I was setting up an OKD single node cluster and to test if it was up I ran: openshift-install –dir=/opt/okd4/install_dir/ wait-for bootstrap-complete –log-level=debug Then I got the following error messages: https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0: EOF E0104 15:32:18.605736 1642 reflector.go:153] k8s.io/client-go/tools/watch/informerwatcher.go:146: Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap: Get https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0: EOF E0104 15:32:19.607338 1642 reflector.go:153] k8s.io/client-go/tools/watch/informerwatcher.go:146: Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap: Get https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0:… read more…
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Moving OMV to new hardware
My OMV server failed and would not start so I had to move the data disks, mirrored and system disk to a new PC. This is some lessons learned. Keep it off the LAN For the exercise of moving the disks it seems much easier if you keep the new server off the network until… read more…