Posted on zo 15 december 2024 in fediverse
So the plan was to set up a mostly proper kubernetes cluster, move mastodon.nl onto it and then migrate to mastodon 4.3.2
But tests showed there were performance issues to address and right now I've already spent the amount of time that I can on working on …
Posted on za 23 november 2024 in fediverse
Progress was made to get mastodon running in kubernetes next to the virtual machines in my mastodon.nl test environment. There was more fiddling involved than anticipated, but things are moving forward.
The container based mastodon services are now using the same NFS storage, postgres database, redis and elasticsearch as …
Posted on za 15 juni 2024 in fediverse
A couple of weeks ago I started pushing ZFS snapshots of the live database partition for mastodon.nl to my homelab. Testing that this is actually usable as a restore point for a postgres database was still on my todo list.
Today I found the time to setup an postgres …
Posted on zo 02 juni 2024 in fediverse
As I detailed a couple of months back, the mastodon media store is ZFS based and snapshots are pushed offsite multiple times a day. For the database servers, we used a daily SQL dump that was sent offsite. Good enough, but could be better.
Recently we had a small incident …
Posted on zo 26 mei 2024 in fediverse
Afgelopen dinsdag was de voorjaarsconferentie van de NLUUG. Volgens mijn ben ik al sinds 2013 lid van deze vereniging, maar het was er om diverse redenen nog niet eerder van gekomen ook daadwerkelijk op een van de conferenties te komen.
Dit keer dus wel en ik heb een paar interessante …