Kubernetes and Cloud Native
Anything that touches Kubernetes, homelabs and the CNCF landscape — built and run for real on a four-node cluster.
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Why Is It v1 for a Namespace but apps/v1 for a Deployment?
If you’ve written more than a couple of Kubernetes manifests, you’ve probably copy-pasted these lines without thinking too hard about them:
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Why a thousand containers weigh almost nothing
Docker can run a hundred copies of the same image without storing it a hundred times. The trick is copy-on-write — and…
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Stop Naming Your Servers: The Pets vs. Cattle Metaphor That Changed Infrastructure Forever
Somewhere in a server room, there is a machine called gandalf. It has been running for 1,400 days. Nobody remembers exactly what’s…
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Multi-Tenant ERPNext on a Local Kubernetes Cluster
Running three independent businesses on one homelab K8s deployment — with replicated storage, automated cloud backups, and zero vendor lock-in.
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Longhorn on MicroK8s: Replicated Storage for a 4-Node Homelab Cluster
Skip NFS-in-a-pod, skip Ceph. Longhorn gives you distributed, replicated storage on bare metal in under 10 minutes.
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Building the Observability Stack for my 4-Node Homelab Kubernetes Cluster with Headlamp and Beszel
No Prometheus. No Grafana. No YAML hell. Just two lightweight tools that give you everything you need to monitor a homelab cluster.
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Secure GitLab Runners on a Local 4-Node K8s Cluster Through GCP Secret Manager and External Secrets Operator v2
A complete guide to running GitLab CI/CD on your homelab Kubernetes cluster without ever putting a secret in a file.
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SSH Over the Internet Without Exposing Your Server — Cloudflare Tunnels + Zero Trust Access
You want SSH access to your home server from anywhere in the world. The naive approach — opening port 22 on your…