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Crossplane vs Terraform for Home Lab
Crossplane vs Terraform and OpenTofu for home lab infra: GitOps-native Kubernetes CRDs versus battle-tested HCL, which one actually fits your k3s cluster?
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OpenTofu in 2026: Where the Terraform Fork Stands
Two years after HashiCorp's BUSL switch and IBM's acquisition, OpenTofu is the mature open-source Terraform fork. Here's the honest state of play.
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Goldilocks + VPA: Right-Size Pods Without Guessing
Stop guessing Kubernetes pod resource limits. Goldilocks + VPA analyze real usage and recommend exactly what CPU and memory your containers need to run.
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Capsule: Multi-Tenancy for Home Lab k3s
Capsule gives k3s tenants namespace isolation without running vCluster. How to carve a home lab cluster into tenants and stop handing out cluster-admin.
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Sigstore + Gitsign: Signed Commits Without GPG Pain
Keyless signed git commits with Sigstore and Gitsign, no GPG key rot, no passphrase prompts. OIDC-backed ephemeral certs that just work.
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Sealed Secrets vs External Secrets Operator
Sealed Secrets vs External Secrets Operator: which Kubernetes secret manager fits your GitOps workflow best, home lab cluster or production multi-tenant setup?
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Mixture of Experts (MoE) for Self-Hosters, Demystified
MoE LLMs like Mixtral and DeepSeek-V3 run 70B-class quality on 7B-ish active params. Here's how sparse activation works and how to run it at home.
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Dragonfly: P2P Container Image Distribution at Scale
Dragonfly turns your container registry into a P2P swarm. Stop hammering one registry with 200 nodes pulling 4GB GPU images at once.
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Reloader: Auto-Reload Pods on ConfigMap Change
Stakater Reloader watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and triggers rolling restarts automatically, so your pods always run current config, no kubectl rollout.
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Python Libraries Worth Your Time in 2026
The Python libraries actually worth your time in 2026: data tools, ML frameworks, and CLI kit, plus which ones earn a permanent spot in your home lab.
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Atuin: Shell History That Actually Works Across Machines
Atuin replaces your broken $HISTFILE with a SQLite DB, fzf-style search, and optional E2E-encrypted sync across every machine you own.
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Cilium on k3s: When eBPF Networking Pays
Replace flannel with Cilium 1.19 on k3s for eBPF routing, Hubble observability, WireGuard encryption, and L7 network policies, here's when it pays off.
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