Homelab
- 2026-05-04
Conversation Memory in RAG: What Production Actually Does (and How I Built It on One GPU)
A beta tester broke my chatbot on his third message. He was poking at chat.kubecraftlabs.io, my self-hosted RAG bot for KubeCraft material. He asked a …
- 2026-04-21
The Quiet Upgrade — How Fleet Reduction Saved My Kubernetes Cluster
Three months ago, a Talos upgrade on my homelab ate my weekend. Eleven CloudNativePG clusters went into partial-replica state, five were corrupted …
2026-02-03A Tale of 60,000 Data Points: How My AI Found What My Fitness Apps Couldn't
My name is Rex. I’m Mischa’s AI assistant — a Claude-based system running as part of his Personal AI Infrastructure. This is the first …
2026-01-25Tailscale on Fedora Atomic with Podman Quadlet
I’m currently working remotely from my camper van, traveling around Europe while staying connected to my work. One thing I really need is …
- 2026-01-03
How To Fix Framework Desktop PSU Fan Noise
The Framework Desktop is marketed as a silent PC. Mine wasn’t. After setting it up, I noticed an annoying whirring noise coming from the PSU …
2025-12-24Reloader: Auto-Restart Pods When ConfigMaps Change
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve updated a ConfigMap and then wondered why my application wasn’t picking up the changes. The …
2025-12-15Uploading Large Git Repos to Forgejo via NFS
When pushing a large repository with extensive history to my self-hosted Forgejo instance, I kept running into Connection reset by peer errors during …
2025-12-15Security Hardening Complete
End-to-end test after security hardening of the blog deployment. Changes implemented: Registry credentials now managed via External Secrets Operator …
2025-12-01Running these apps in my homelab made me $600K
One of the questions I get often is: so I built my home lab. What do I do with it? And it’s one of my favorite questions to answer. Every week I …
- 2025-09-22
Case Study: From Systems Support to SRE
! Brad just landed a Junior SRE role with a 40% pay bump in about six weeks. Not because of a degree or pricey certs. Because he made his skills …
- 2025-09-18
How to land a DevOps job without experience?
Here’s what they don’t tell you in bootcamps: I broke into DevOps without formal experience using one strategy. My students Eric and Danil …
- 2025-09-09
DevOps job seekers: stop watching tutorials (do this instead)
You’re applying for DevOps jobs wrong. Here’s the brutal truth: You watch YouTube tutorials for months. You get AWS certifications. You …
- 2024-12-17
This will supercharge your tech skills more than anything else
Ever wondered why some DevOps engineers stand out in interviews while others (even with 10 certifications) don’t make the cut? Let me share a quick …
- 2024-08-11
I set up Pi-hole on my Synology NAS
Transition to manifest V3 is now starting and Ublock Origin might not be supported in Chrome in the future. Because of my transition from a mouse to a …
- 2024-07-31
Talos Linux Upgrade Guide July
I upgraded my homelab cluster using Talos Linux today. I made a mistake and forgot to use the custom-built image using iscsi-tools. Learning the hard …
- 2024-01-17
Video: Learning Flux and Installing To Homelab
In this video I set up Flux running in a local cluster on my MacBook by following the getting started guide. Then I learn about how to structure the …
2024-01-13Designed The Network For My Homelab
My ISP router only allowed me to assign 200 IP addresses and it didn’t have any possibility to create VLANS, so it was time for an upgrade to my …
- 2024-01-04
Video: Homelab E2 - Setting Up Monitoring + Studying k3s Networking & Configuring Ingress
In this video I installed Prometheus and Grafana using helm and studied k3s networking. My goal was to make Grafana approachable via ingress using a …
- 2023-12-31
Video: Homelab Episode 1
This is the first video of my homelab series. I set up the repo for my project and do the initial installation of k3s on an old laptop I had lying …
- 2023-12-30
Discovered a simple CLI to backup and upload Grafana dashboards
This is a super useful tool to list, download and upload Grafana dashboards as json. Currently using this to occasionally take extra-extra backups of …
- 2023-12-29
Homelab Secret Management With GitOps and Azure Key Vault
In this blog post, I want to share with you how I set up secrets management for my home lab. I use my home lab to explore new technologies, but I also …
- 2023-12-25
Video: How To Install Prometheus & Grafana In Your Homelab
In this video I’ll be installing Prometheus and Grafana in a Kubernetes cluster running in Rancher Desktop on my MacBook. There are many …
2023-04-12Starting My Homelab
This week I started a project which I’ve been putting off for too long. I finally started my homelab. Over the past year I’ve been …
