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Alex Ellis
Personal blog · alexellisuk.medium.comprogramminghardware
Alex Ellis's personal blog at alexellisuk.medium.com covers programming and hardware. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Walk-through – install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Ellis's Medium posts on Raspberry Pi 4 upgrades and storage. One comment cites his benchmark that an SD card gave faster buffered reads than an M2 SATA SSD over USB.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Walk-through – install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-11-11
- Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-20
What Hacker News says?
Disclaimer, I am a CNCF Ambassador (voluntary) - so it's in my interest to promote CNCF projects like Kubernetes. It seems like a good time to mention my blog post from last year "Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?" -> https://alexellisuk.medium.com/then-he-asked-me-is-kubernete... Some of the feedback I've had so far is that it was refreshing to get "permission" to consider alternatives vs. the current h…
Comment linking /then-he-asked-me-is-kubernetes-right-for-us-78695ee35289
on “Kubernetes Failure Stories”Submitted Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive as a story · 152 points
HN discussionThank you. I would agree here - k3s is much better suited for RPi than kubeadm, this looks like a rehash of my original tutorial from several years ago -> https://github.com/teamserverless/k8s-on-raspbian/ Today, I point folks here to get everything up and running with minimal overheads -> https://alexellisuk.medium.com/walk-through-install-kubernet...
Comment linking /walk-through-install-kubernetes-to-your-raspberry-pi-in-15-minutes-84a8492dc95a
on “Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes”Submitted Walk-through – install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese build logs can sometimes make playing with RPis look rather complicated. It doesn't have to be. Here's a guide I wrote for getting productive and running some code on your newly minted cluster (an often forgotten step) - https://alexellisuk.medium.com/walk-through-install-kubernet...
Comment linking /walk-through-install-kubernetes-to-your-raspberry-pi-in-15-minutes-84a8492dc95a
on “Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi”Submitted Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou literally lost perf by moving to ssd through USB https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-w... >Interestingly, the SD card gave a seemingly better buffered disk read than the M2 SATA SSD at 43.35 MB/sec
Comment linking /upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2
on “Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Raspberry Linux”Submitted Install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMe too, but with NVMe and netbooted :) https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-w...
Comment linking /upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2
on “Ask HN: Do you have a homelab? Why and what's your setup?”Submitted Install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes (Updated) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walk-through – install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walk-through – install K3s to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes (2020, updated) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Upgrade your Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes (walk-through) as a story · 1 points
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