A few months ago I knew two things were coming: the birth of my second son, and a lot of waiting around. There would be hours in a hospital room, and then paternity leave with a newborn who sleeps ...

Managing Kubernetes with GitOps using Flux CD Part 2 Now that cert-manager is configured, we’ll deploy Traefik as our ingress controller by first creating its namespace, Helm repository configurat...

Managing Kubernetes with GitOps using Flux CD Part 1 In the ever-evolving landscape of home lab automation, managing Kubernetes clusters can quickly become a time-consuming endeavor. Traditional a...

Automating Kubernetes Cluster Updates with Ansible and AWX For initial cluster deployment, I recommend using Techno Tim’s k3s-ansible playbook. This playbook makes it easy to deploy k3s cluster on...

This post covers setting up Renovate with Portainer to automate dependency updates in GitLab projects. I’ll walk through deploying the Renovate docker container and connecting it to a self-hosted G...

I use syncthing to copy data to a couple remote synology servers and my relatives house which provides an off-site copy of my important data, following the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Export existing a...

I have been running TrueNAS for years as my main homelab NAS. When TrueNAS Scale came out with integrated k3s for applications, I was intrigued about the new app model combined with the migration t...

I have been using Let’s Encrypt to create certs for my internal services, including my self-hosted gitlab server, for quite a while. I had been using an ansible playbook by Bendews to create Lets E...

I recently moved some core services to LXC Containers. During that migration, I discovered a super easy to use NGINX Proxy app called NGINX Proxy Manager. This service is very similar to traefik. W...

I have been looking for a more stable way to run several core applications in my homelab. Previously I have used TrueNAS + Truecharts. However this setup has become very time consuming to manage wi...