Debian on Miek Gieben

Nvim Debian Pkg

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:20:31 +0200

NVIM stopped making Debian packages a while back, so here is a short note on how to do this yourself. Had a hard time finding this info, hence reproduced here. Assuming you’ve got the source.

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cd build && cpack -G DEB
sudo dpkg -i nvim-linux64.deb

… and of course you then find the authoritative text.

If you use RelWithDebInfo an ever growing log file will be created in ~/.local/state/nvim/log.

Provisioning K3s and systemk

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:38:37 +0000

Due to a previous job I’m calling nodes, “machines”, also because this is about systemk, it’s more likely you are actually using a real machine. So I’ll keep on using “machines” in this post.

First up: I needed an easy way to build packages of the software I’m using. For this I’ve setup a small CI using GitHub workflows that builds Debian packages for me: https://github.com/miekg/debian. (A Debian package repository would even be better, so I can more easily do upgrades).

Kubernetes Control Plane for Debian?

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:38:37 +0000

The everything is a object in Kubernetes is a very nice abstraction. The ability to influence it with just kubectl makes for only one control plane (to learn).

The networking, ingress, discovery, installation, etc. are all not that great. So I’m pondering marrying the things I love: have a plain Debian system, “normal” networking (no overlay/underlay/whatever), Debian packages, etc. And controlling it all via kubectl.

This should include a sane installation and allow for rollbacks. Metrics and observability should be supported, but will probably be more of the same (install the binaries and push configuration = k8s objects).