Posts tagged "devops"

68% of my blog traffic this week was AI scrapers harvesting content for training data. Here's how I'm blocking OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and other AI crawlers — and why you should too.

When my ISP started rotating my residential IP weekly, I stopped updating Cloudflare manually and built a Kubernetes CronJob that does it automatically every 15 minutes.

Stop single-point failures. Build a production-grade k3s cluster with 3 master nodes, external MySQL, and load balancing—all on budget Pi hardware. Step-by-step guide with troubleshooting.

How to install MetalLB on a bare-metal K3s cluster to get real LoadBalancer services without relying on a cloud provider.

A practical guide to setting up Proxmox VE as a hypervisor for homelab virtualisation — installation, networking, and getting your first VMs running.

With Raspberry Pi supply still constrained, is RISC-V the future of single-board computing? An exploration of the open ISA and the hardware making a play for the homelab.

How to integrate AI tooling into CI/CD pipelines to automate code review, test generation, and deployment decisions — and where it actually adds value.

How to expose K3s services through Cloudflare with automatic TLS certificates managed by cert-manager — a complete homelab edge networking setup.

What the UK's minimum guaranteed download speed rules actually mean, how ISPs measure compliance, and what you can do if your broadband line underperforms.

Setting up automated offsite backups for Longhorn persistent volumes on a Raspberry Pi K3s cluster using AWS S3.

How to install and configure Longhorn distributed block storage on a K3s Raspberry Pi cluster to provide reliable persistent volumes.

Install and configure k3s on Raspberry Pi 4 & 5 with Ansible: static networking, cgroup setup, kubectl configuration, and real-world cluster deployment.

An introduction to building a home Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pis — why it's a great homelab project and what you'll need to get started.

How a Windows update silently wiped a WSL2 environment and the lessons learned about protecting data in Windows Subsystem for Linux.

A walkthrough of the AWS Well-Architected Framework Sustainability Pillar and how to apply its principles to reduce the environmental footprint of your cloud workloads.

How to build a GitHub Actions self-hosted runner as a VM to get faster, more reproducible CI builds on your own hardware.