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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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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