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Setting Up Loki on K3s for Centralised Log Aggregation Completing the Observability Stack My homelab runs a full observability stack: - Prometheus — metrics, scraped every 15 seconds - ...

Running Pi-hole on Kubernetes with Helm and MetalLB Why Pi-hole in Kubernetes? Pi-hole is the standard homelab DNS server — it blocks ads and trackers at the network level and lets you define...

Why Encrypt a Portable Drive? A portable OS is only as secure as the storage it lives on. An unencrypted USB drive is a liability: drop it on a train, leave it in a cafe, or have it pulled from a...

The Problem with Prometheus Alone Prometheus is excellent at what it does: scraping metrics, storing them locally, and making them queryable. But it has a practical limit — local disk. In my home...

I Built a Council of AIs That Live in My Kubernetes Cluster Some decisions are too big for a single perspective. I've been running an AI assistant in my homelab — OpenClaw, backed by Claude, whic...

Traefik v3 on K3s: Ingress Routing and TLS with cert-manager One thing that caught me out early on with K3s is that it ships with Traefik already installed as the default ingress controller. You ...

Portable Arch Linux Series Welcome, this series is going to be a technical deep-dive and walkthrough of how to create a X86/64 portable Arch Linux on an external SSD/USB drive that will allow you ...

Development Journey Update - End of 2025 As we approach the end of 2025, it's a good time to reflect on the achievements of the year. I've not been blogging much recently; this was a combination...

What is MetalLB? MetalLB offers a Layer 2 or BGP load balancer for Kubernetes. ---  Why Use It? Kubernetes does not provide an implementation of netw...

Setting Up Proxmox _Coming soon..._ ...