Tag: homelab

Crossplane vs Terraform and OpenTofu for home lab infra: GitOps-native Kubernetes CRDs versus battle-tested HCL, which one actually fits your k3s cluster?

Stop guessing Kubernetes pod resource limits. Goldilocks + VPA analyze real usage and recommend exactly what CPU and memory your containers need to run.

Capsule gives k3s tenants namespace isolation without running vCluster. How to carve a home lab cluster into tenants and stop handing out cluster-admin.

Sealed Secrets vs External Secrets Operator: which Kubernetes secret manager fits your GitOps workflow best, home lab cluster or production multi-tenant setup?

Stakater Reloader watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and triggers rolling restarts automatically, so your pods always run current config, no kubectl rollout.

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.

Run a single k3s cluster spanning two physical sites using Tailscale as the WireGuard fabric, home lab server plus cloud VPS, one single kubectl context.

Run real KVM virtual machines as Kubernetes resources on k3s. One control plane for pods and VMs, no more juggling Proxmox alongside your cluster every day.

ClickHouse, DuckDB, or StarRocks for home lab analytics? A practical guide to picking the right OLAP engine for your query patterns without losing the weekend.

How to safely add a NOT NULL column with a live backfill on a 200M-row Postgres table without locking your users out or scheduling any maintenance downtime.

Build a real Postgres 17 HA cluster with Patroni 4.x, etcd 3.5, and HAProxy, fully automatic failover, tested switchover procedure, zero manual babysitting.

DragonflyDB vs Redis 8.x and Valkey 9.x: architecture deep dive, real performance benchmarks, honest gotchas, and when to swap your cache layer for a dragon.