My Load Balancer and Ingress Setup: MetalLB, Traefik, and Cloudflare
Setting up MetalLB for bare-metal load balancing, Traefik as the ingress controller, and Cloudflare for DNS on my Kubernetes cluster.
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homelab
Building and running a self-hosted homelab—hardware, networking, and infrastructure experiments.
From NFS to Longhorn: Optimizing Persistent Storage on My Kubernetes Cluster
Replacing NFS with Longhorn for Kubernetes persistent storage—why I switched and how I manage it with Ansible.
Running K3s on My Turing Pi Clusters with Ansible Automation
Automating K3s cluster deployment on Turing Pi hardware with Ansible—inventory, roles, and fully idempotent provisioning.
Upgrading second board to a Turing Pi v2.5
Upgrading my second Turing Pi board to the v2.5 revision and expanding my homelab cluster capacity.
Transitioning to the RK1: More Power for My Cluster
Upgrading from OrangePi CM4 to Turing Pi RK1 modules—the performance jump and what it changed for my Kubernetes homelab.
First Iteration of My Cluster: OrangePi CM4
My first Kubernetes cluster attempt using OrangePi CM4 modules on the Turing Pi v2—what worked, what didn't, and what I learned.
My Journey with Turing Pi v2 : From Kickstarter to Automation & Kubernetes
How I went from Kickstarter backer to running a fully automated Kubernetes cluster on the Turing Pi v2—from unboxing to production.