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Posted on 28 April 2025   31 min read

Boat Monitoring System

using k3s on an android phone with a tig stack and prometheus

As I travel further north on the canals the mobile signal coverage is gradually getting worse so I decided to build a monitoring solutions to help with deciding where to moor. My initial idea was to use an Intel NUC or RaspberryPi with a 12v PSU, but then a friend told me about how he was monitoring his home lab using kubernetes on an old android phone, it sounded like the perfect solution.