The physical side of the homelab: a 2x4 rack, terrible wiring, a broken UPS faceplate, and a full cost breakdown.
Cheap NVMe, Dead Talos, and How I Ended Up on MicroK8s
Off-brand NVMe drives, a failed Talos install, 20 hours of PXE boot failures, and the pivot to MicroK8s.
Terraform, Ansible, and the Automation That Runs Everything
The full IaC pipeline: Terraform workspaces, containerized Ansible, auto-generated workflows.
The Storage Array
Storage architecture across the lab: ZFS, NFS, Longhorn, and how it all fits together.
The FreeNAS Box: 10 Years of Spinning Rust
The SuperMicro FreeNAS box that has been serving NFS for a decade.
Lab Modernization: From Manual Configs to Full Automation
Day-by-day journal of taking a manually configured homelab and automating everything.
Cellular Backup Internet
Setting up cellular failover internet for the homelab.