When I moved my homelab from a collection of Docker workloads to a three-node k3s cluster, getting the applications running was only part of the migration. I also wanted the dashboard I use to get into everything to understand the cluster underneath it. A traditional homelab dashboard is mostly a…
When I moved my homelab workloads from a single Docker host into a three-node k3s cluster, persistent storage was one of the architectural decisions I wanted to get right early. Most of the persistent data already lived on TrueNAS, so Kubernetes didn't need to become a storage platform itself. What…
When I rebuilt my Docker homelab as a three-node k3s cluster, one of the requirements was reproducibility. The Kubernetes nodes are Ubuntu VMs running on Proxmox. I needed three nodes initially, with the possibility of adding a fourth later. Installing and configuring Ubuntu manually on every VM would work, but…
I use the same public domain for services across my homelab, but those services don't all live in Kubernetes. HAProxy runs on my pfSense firewalls and remains the general-purpose reverse proxy for the environment. It handles public ingress and also fronts services running outside Kubernetes. Inside my k3s cluster, Traefik…
Both before and after moving most of my homelab workloads onto k3s, I started seeing intermittent outages in Uptime Kuma. Moving to k3s helped, but didn't fully resolve it. There wasn't an obvious pattern. Different services would occasionally show approximately 60 seconds of downtime, then recover without intervention. The affected…