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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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DIY NAS Build: Compute, Drives, Power Walkthrough
Build a proper DIY NAS in 2026: case selection, CPU choice, drives, HBA card, ZFS pool layout, UPS sizing, and a real power budget that will not fail you.
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k3sup vs kubeadm for Homelab Clusters
kubeadm is the official Kubernetes bootstrapper. k3sup is a one-shot SSH installer for k3s. Here's which one to use for your homelab cluster.
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