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📢 Important Announcement The following article is about first retrieving Modbus data from devices with a Teltonika 4G router. If you are not too concerned about latency of the data from the devices, this article is fine. However, if you are concerned with latency and would like a solution that works
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In this final post of the Going Mobile series, I'll go over some issues I have faced while deploying the system, and provide a summary of the solutions I chose to resolve them. Networking (again): svclb timing out: Upon deploying the nodes in different locations I realised that
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3 Parts: This post will be split into 3 parts: * Networking * Monitoring * Chaos Engineering Networking: The networking stack is comprised of 3 main parts: * MagicDNS with Headscale * HAProxy * Traefik MagicDNS with Headscale The Headscale server handles the DNS resolution with MagicDNS, an example of how this is implemented in the
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A change of plans: The original design in part 2 had a few missing parts: * It didn't include the hosting of the Headscale server required for our Tailscale overlay network. * The assumption of being able to have 2 physical location wasn't correct in the context of
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The Plan: The part that matters Part 1: Identifying System Requirements Based on the outlines from Part 1, the requirements for our system are as follows: 1. Highly available, geographically distributed system 2. Distributed replicated storage 3. Ability to run argoCD, code-server, hakatime, and Nextcloud together, at a minimum Part
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Introduction "Going Mobile" is a blog series that documents my journey to create a fully distributed system for both personal and professional use, which will allow me to work remotely from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. The project is primarily focused on creating a distributed
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Background Sometime in August 2022, I came across this post on reddit by Khue Doan, and was so inspired that I decided that I would overhaul my old server and replace it with my own Kubernetes cluster. The Hardware * 3x HP ProDesk 600 G3 DM Mini i5-7500T with 16gb RAM
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I wanted to create a system that would use a Zigbee door sensor to send a notification to my phone when the door was opened. I settled on creating a Zigbee gateway using a Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and a RaspBee 2 by Phoscon, which is a Zigbee module for