Kubernetes Ravings

macOS Local Network Privacy: why your CLI gets EHOSTUNREACH and how to fix it

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200

Why a CLI or a background service cannot reach your LAN on macOS, what EHOSTUNREACH really means, and the signed .app wrapper that fixes it.

Rancher Turtles with Harvester: Cluster API in practice

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:17:37 +0000

Deploy Kubernetes clusters on Harvester VMs with Rancher Turtles and Cluster API, from installing the provider to importing the cluster.

Harvester networking: attaching a VM to a bridged network

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:48:37 +0000

Give a Harvester VM an address on your LAN: configure a host network interface, add a VLAN, and attach the VM with bridged networking.

Harvester HCI: what it is and how to install it

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:07:15 +0100

What Harvester is, the hardware it needs in v1.9, when it fits and when it does not, and a walkthrough of the install.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Mohamed Belgaied Hassine, a consulting engineer at Rancher, now part of SUSE. Most of my working life is Kubernetes: helping teams design, install and operate clusters, and lately a good deal of virtualization on top of them.

I started this blog to write down the things I could not find documented anywhere. The posts here tend to be about the unglamorous parts: how a VM actually gets an address on your LAN, what a platform needs before you can install it, why a tool works from your terminal but not from the background service that replaces it.