Aims

Today’s goal was to deploy Gitea on my K3s cluster, ensuring that:

• It used persistent storage via my NAS.
• It was accessible externally through Traefik.
• It could eventually replace GitHub for my FluxCD setup.

What I Did

Storage and Permissions Woes

Running Gitea as a stateless container worked …

Aims

The goal for today was to get my first piece of software running on the cluster, ensuring that:

• It leveraged the NAS for storage.
• It was accessible externally via Traefik.
• The process was repeatable for future deployments.

I chose the Unifi Management Console as my first self-hosted application. Once …

After going back and forth multiple times and making plenty of mistakes, I finally managed to set up a new K3s control plane and node. It turned out to be relatively straightforward once I got the steps right, so I’m documenting this for future reference!

Aims

The goal was …

Setting Up Storage for the Kubernetes Cluster

The first step in setting up my homelab Kubernetes cluster is ensuring some reliable data storage. Right now, I have two main categories of data in mind:

1. Operationally Critical Data

• Needs RAID with redundancy
• Requires both on-site and off-site backups
• Approximately 1TB …

Why I'm Migrating My Self-Hosted Services

I've decided to migrate all my existing self-hosted services—and add a few new ones—to a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster that I'm going to build. There are several motivations behind this decision:

Learning Kubernetes Beyond Ephemeral Clusters

• My role as an Engineering Manager at …