Zachary Fouts

Deploying K3s with Ansible: A Complete Tutorial

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What You’ll Build

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a reusable Ansible role that can deploy a K3s Kubernetes cluster to any set of Linux machines: homelab hardware, cloud VPS nodes, or both. The setup includes:

Automated K3s installation on server and agent nodes
WireGuard-encrypted pod-to-pod networking
Embedded etcd with HA support and S3 snapshot backups
iptables firewall rules tailored for K3s traffic
Multi-environment inventories so one codebase manages multiple clusters

If you’ve ever SSH’d into a box, run curl https://get.k3s.io | sh, and hoped for the best, this replaces that with something you can version-control, audit, and rebuild from scratch.

Reverse Engineering the Carbide Create .c2d File Format

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Question Nobody Asked

I’ve been using a Shapeoko 5 Pro for a while now, and like most CNC hobbyists, I’ve built up a library of .c2d files in Carbide Create. At some point, I started wondering: what is a .c2d file? Could I generate one programmatically? Could I template my projects, parametrically resize joinery, or batch-produce cutting files without clicking through the UI every time?

So I did what any reasonable person would do. I cracked one open.

About

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I work on the technical side of M&A: the acquisitions where nobody knows how the tech stacks will fit together, the divestitures where shared infrastructure has to be cleanly separated under tight timelines.

I’ve been doing some version of this for a long time. In ‘97 I was getting pulled out of class to fix the principal’s computer and was the first student in my elementary school to get internet time during lunch. By 16 I was running my own gig: web hosting, VPNs, fixing whatever small businesses needed fixed. The problems have gotten bigger, but the approach hasn’t changed: understand the landscape, find the risks, build a plan, execute without burning the place down.

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Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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