A collection of field notes, documentation, and practical guides on whatever I'm currently building or learning.
Exposing on-premise Kubernetes services without cloud-provider load balancers can be daunting. Learn how to combine MetalLB's Layer 2 IP allocation, Traefik's advanced edge routing, and cert-manager's DNS-01 wildcard certificates into a highly efficient homelab networking stack.
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How to bypass port-forwarding and NAT issues entirely by using the Kubernetes-native Cloudflare Operator to manage Cloudflare Tunnels via CRDs
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A simple and robust approach to automatically cloning and mirroring your GitHub repositories to a self-hosted Gitea instance
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Stop redeploying your portfolio just to fix a typo. Here's how I bridged Vue 3 and Ghost CMS to build a high-performance, headless content engine.
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Managing 60+ homelab apps manually is a nightmare. Here's how I built a fully automated, self-healing deployment pipeline using ArgoCD, Keel, and Renovate
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When troubleshooting Kubernetes, context switching is the enemy. Jumping between Grafana for cluster metrics, Loki for logs, and kubectl for pod events slows down incident response. Here is how I built a single dashboard that combines cluster-wide health overviews with deep pod-level forensics.
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Cloud-init is a widely used industry standard for customizing cloud instances. This guide will walk you through the process of creating and using cloud-init with Proxmox, allowing you to automate the initialization of virtual machines. Prerequisites * Proxmox VE installed and configured * Access to the Proxmox web interface * A cloud-init compatible OS image (e.g., Debian Cloud Image) Steps to Create a Cloud-Init Template 1. Download a Cloud Image First, download a cloud-init compatib
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