Meetups/Infra/2025-09-01

Noisebridge k8s updates, jepsen.io & aphyr.com, brew / ollama / llm cli, nix / uv, and ml2.noise:8686/

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

• Loren -- background in platform engineer
• Elan -- background in nlp, (robotics) -- tonight, how to set up nb infra accessible to new folks
• Sai - recent grad, MSc AI, Buffalo, move to SF today.
• Mauricio -- moved 2 weeks ago, CS Econ, passed! Interested in learning what's out there. Want to build stuff, online and physically.
• Akil -- came into the states a few weeks ago, 2nd day in SF. Some experience with [..] & k8s. Have exeperience with k8s and ETL pipelines. Looking for project to collaborate
• Chris -- designer & full-stack developer. Interested in containers for hosting stuff.
• Frank -- software background, home labber, want to do more of that stuff
• Greg -- programmer by trade, run a homelab,
• Nelson -

Lesson or Demo

• Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
• Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!

• noise garden

professional -> amateur, passion (for the love of it) farm -> garden

raspberry pi cluster. learn by doing. folks new to devops. move from directly hosting service on machines, to auto-replicated pod deployments

Hands-on, getting dirty.

Have worked with managed pipeline "always assume networking is a solved problem"

microk8s on ubuntu

"some of the sensible defaults are not the ones I would have liked"

• ansible -- ssh & for loops

• network & linux core basics - "for building things"

• k8s cluster -- garden.noise

distributed dateabases

failover minecraft?

https://jepsen.io/ https://aphyr.com

brew, sure brew install ollama nix, yes -- as a package manage, even on macOS. "Determinite Systems nix installed" uv (python packages)

https://llm.datasette.io

ml2.noise:8686/

Example config for VSCode Continue extention connecting to locally hosted Ollama model: name: Local Assistant version: 1.0.0 schema: v1 models:

 - name: localhost-gemma3-12b
   provider: ollama
   model: gemma3:12b
   apiBase: http://localhost:11434
   roles:
     - autocomplete
     - chat
     - embed

Outro, Takeaways

• Elan - try ml2 services to cluster
• Loren -- write up my reccomendations -- from fzf, to uv, to nix
• Frank -- explore further, set up caddy with letsencrypt, public names, private ip
• Mauricio -- mess with local llms,

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking

• [Issue]

For next time

Readings & Exercises

• Readings
• Exercises

Join online

• Try it yourself!
  • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra