Background

For this year the usual congress ctf went a bit different than in the previous year. Instead of two big CTFs that went for the duration of the whole congress, there was one smaller one which lasted for 24 hours: The potluck CTF.

This would actually be my first …

Introduction

In one of my previous blog posts, i discussed how to setup a bare metal kubernetes cluster using microk8s. However, one crucial part was still missing: Storage.

In the past i have used longhorn for this, as it provides a really powerful way of handling persistent storage in bare …

Some knowledge of how kubernetes works, as well as some networking basics might be helpful in understanding this post.

Motivation

Through some changes in my job, i first came into contact with kubernetes ~1 year ago. In this time i learned a lot, however my learning process was always somehow …