tim olson

An infrastructure engineer targeting all things Kubernetes. Coming from SWE I love working all parts of the stack. I specifically provide Kubernetes as a platform along with the administration, onboarding, and life-cycle of applications. Long live Linux.

St. Paul, MN

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pifrost: An external DNS for pi-hole

Tue, Feb 22, 2022

Raspberrypi Pi-Hole Kubernetes Homelab Server Linux Development Go

A showcase of pifrost, an external DNS provider I wrote to provide network-wide DNS for my homelab kubernetes. This controller works by watching Ingress and Service events in kubernetes. If an event matches a criterea (described within), a DNS record is created in pi-hole and thus the service is available via DNS on my local network. [ ... continued in blog ... ]

townwatch: an alerting tool for log line regex matches

Sat, May 1, 2021

Go Development

I recently completed a project for watching server log messages; townwatch. I named it for an upgrade in AoE2 that isn’t very popular. Townwatch, my tool, is not a replacement for other monitoring or threat prevention tools, its aim is to provide some easy visibility into service log files on a linux host. [ ... continued in blog ... ]