tnorlin.se

Just another homelab tinkerer with a passion for italian food culture.
My heart ticks for OpenSource.
Writes about anything from pizza, pasta, gelato and coffee to illumos, BSD, Kubernetes, Linux, networking and security.

Prefers my kubernetes flavour to be vanilla with Cilium as the CNI to have a solid foundation, supporting my illumos based Kubernets architecture. Prefers my pizza according to Pizza Napoletana stg. The gelato should be creamy and soft without any notable ice crystals.
Dtrace and all projects based on eBPF catches my interest (except MS Windows, sorry thats a red line for me).

Featured

• Day #15 of rediscovering FreeBSD

  1 Mar, 2026

  I've decided to rediscover FreeBSD as FreeBSD 15.0 was recently released.

• Cilium Hubble dynamically exported Flows

  6 Jan, 2026

  With dynamically exported Flows, Cilium users can send the Hubble Flowlogs to Alertmanager and act on denied traffic

• From ingress-nginx to Gateway API (with Cilium)

  23 Dec, 2025

  Migration from ingress-nginx to Gateway API with a shared gateway (with Cilium).

• k8s v1.32 + Cilium v.17.0 + illumos = true?

  5 Feb, 2025

  A reflection on my twenty years as a home lab tinkler.

• Twenty years of home lab

  20 Nov, 2024

  A reflection on my twenty years as a home lab tinkler.

• Auto join of worker nodes to a Kubernetes cluster

  23 Sep, 2024

  Steps taken to enable worker nodes to automatically join a kubernetes cluster.

• Install Cilium Service Mesh on illumos Control Plane

  26 Aug, 2023

  This article was originally published on my Medium blog 2023-06-04

Recent Posts

• Uwubernetes - Kubernetes v1.30 for illumos, OpenBSD (& FreeBSD)

  18 Apr, 2024

  Kubernetes v1.30 was released yesterday and although I have explored some interesting features in the upcoming Cilium v1.16 release...

• Blog upgraded

  4 Feb, 2024

  Upgraded the blog to the latest Astro release

• Welcome Mandala! (Kubernetes v1.29) on FreeBSD Control Plane

  13 Dec, 2023

  To celebrate the release of Kubernetes v1.29 - Mandala - I decided to go ahead and install it on FreeBSD as a control plane!

• Containerlab with BGP, keepalived, conntrackd and SNAT

  15 Oct, 2023

  A simple how-to on BGP routing with SNAT, keepalived, conntrackd together with FRR and Containerlab that relies on docker containers.