Homelab
My homelab spans Proxmox, Talos Kubernetes, MikroTik and Omada networking, self-hosted mail, storage, PKI, automation, and a steady stream of troubleshooting that usually turns into documentation.
The interesting parts are usually not the install steps. They are the awkward dependencies, upgrade decisions, failure modes, and design trade-offs.
Proxmox nodes, Talos clusters, NixOS workloads, ZFS storage, UPS-driven shutdown logic, and the glue required to keep the stack coherent.
Mail, Git hosting, DNS, backups, Plex, notifications, Home Assistant, and the small but important supporting services that make the rest of the environment usable.
GitOps, secrets management, monitoring, certificate management, security review, incident-style troubleshooting, and the reasoning behind operational choices.
A few first notes drawn from recent workstreams. This section can expand into proper documentation over time.
11 May 2026
Cilium for the CNI and L2 load balancing, Envoy Gateway for HTTP ingress, and the split between internal and external traffic.
kubernetes · cilium · networking · envoy
11 May 2026
What the home Kubernetes cluster actually runs: 90+ applications across media, home automation, self-hosted tools, and personal projects.
kubernetes · homelab · selfhosted
11 May 2026
Running the cluster entirely from Git: how Flux reconciliation, image automation, and Renovate combine into a surprisingly low-maintenance operational model.
kubernetes · flux · gitops · renovate
11 May 2026
Following a controller-side traffic statistics failure back to a MongoDB aggregation problem.
omada · mongodb · troubleshooting
11 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Committing encrypted secrets to Git with SOPS and Age, then syncing them into the cluster at runtime with external-secrets.
kubernetes · secrets · sops · security
11 May 2026
Rook-Ceph for distributed block storage, VolSync for PVC backups, and NFS for media — three different storage tiers with very different operational characteristics.
kubernetes · storage · ceph · volsync
11 May 2026
Current direction for the Kubernetes side of the homelab: GitOps, secrets, networking, upgrades, and hardware edge cases.
kubernetes · talos · flux · cilium
11 May 2026
Building a Python state machine to orchestrate graceful shutdown across Talos and Proxmox during a prolonged power event.
ups · automation · proxmox · talos