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Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph
Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage, Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.
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Gateway API vs Ingress in 2026
Ingress is the annotation-soup classic. Gateway API is the role-oriented future with proper L4/L7 separation. Here's when to migrate and when to wait.
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Rock 5B vs Orange Pi 5 vs Pi 5
Rock 5B, Orange Pi 5, and Raspberry Pi 5 compared for home lab use, NVMe, 2.5GbE, NPU, Frigate, k3s performance, and which one you should actually buy.
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Velero: K8s Backup and DR
Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything, manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes, and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.
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BIOS/UEFI Tweaks for Headless Servers
Before you rack that server and walk away forever, these BIOS and UEFI settings will save you from a 3 AM drive to the datacenter or your dusty basement.
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Claude Code in a Homelab Workflow
Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.
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Kustomize vs Jsonnet for K8s Manifests
Kustomize patches YAML with overlays. Jsonnet is a real templating language with imports and functions. Here's which K8s manifest tool to pick.
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cert-manager: ACME at Scale
cert-manager makes Let's Encrypt automatic on Kubernetes, once. Then you scale, hit DNS-01 quirks, wildcard limits, and rate-limit walls. Here's the full survival guide.
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Rootless Docker: Tips, Gotchas & Fixes
Rootless Docker tuning deep-dive: network drivers, env vars, port drivers, cgroup delegation, and real troubleshooting, anchored to Docker Engine 29.x.
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Argo Rollouts vs Flagger Progressive Delivery
Argo Rollouts uses a Rollout CRD with a slick UI. Flagger watches your Deployment with a Canary CRD. Here's which progressive-delivery tool to pick.
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Network Booting Diskless Nodes with iPXE
Boot any OS over the network using iPXE, covers dnsmasq proxyDHCP setup, HTTP boot menus, Talos OS live boot, and the quick netboot.xyz shortcut method.
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Argo Workflows vs Tekton
Two Kubernetes-native pipeline engines from CNCF, Argo Workflows and Tekton. Different philosophies, same goal: stop using Jenkins. Honest comparison.
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