Posts tagged "homelab"

How to configure L3 inter-VLAN routing on a USW Pro Max 16 PoE switch so that PC-to-NAS traffic never hits the Dream Machine's 1Gbps backplane — unlocking the full 2.5Gbps path between devices on the same switch.

When UniFi inter-VLAN routing breaks port forwarding and makes gaming NAT go Strict, the fix is OS-level VLAN tagging — keeping NAS traffic on a tagged path while internet and gaming traffic flows through the Dream Machine as normal.

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 Loki on K3s using Helm and connect it to Grafana for centralised log aggregation — including the X-Scope-OrgID gotcha that catches most people out.

How to deploy Pi-hole as a Helm chart on K3s, assign it a stable IP via MetalLB, and use it for ad blocking and internal DNS resolution across your homelab.

Set up Thanos for long-term Prometheus storage on k3s with MinIO. Query historical metrics across your Kubernetes cluster with Grafana integration.

How I built a council of specialist AI models running on AWS Bedrock inside Kubernetes — fanning questions out in parallel and deliberating for a verdict.

Traefik on k3s: IngressRoute CRDs, Let's Encrypt automation, rate limiting, and live Prometheus scraping.

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