Raspberry-Pi

Since I got my first Amazon Echo end of last year, I love it. And although, as a typical German, I’m still a bit concerned about data privacy, at the end, convenience wins (as always :). There are many things which work flawlessly, and to be honest, the most used feature for me is a simple timer. But when it comes to aggregate actions, Alexa is still quite limited. Ok, you can define your routines, but for only an insufficient set of fixed actions. What I really would love to have is to start the radio when I get up in the morning, but this is not possible at the moment. So I remembered my last years Amazon Dash button hacks and thought it would be cool to combine both, the Dash button and Alexa. And here it is, my weekend hack …..

Our Ansible Playbooks for installing Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi Cluster have been constantly updated and are now using the awesome kubeadm. The update to Kubernetes 1.6. was a bit tricky, though.

Let’s build a Raspberry Pi Cluster running Docker and Kubernetes. There has been already a handful of good recipes, however this howto is a bit different and provides some unique features.