Homelab

Deploy a production-grade monitoring stack on bare-metal k3s: Prometheus, Loki with Garage S3 storage, Promtail on edge nodes via Ansible, SNMP monitoring for MikroTik, and Grafana SSO via Authelia OIDC — all GitOps-managed.

A two-node recursive DNS stack with ad filtering, automatic config sync, and transparent failover — fully managed with Ansible.

Replace MinIO with Garage — a single 50MB binary — as the Velero backup target. Full daily cluster backups with Longhorn volume snapshots, deployed via ArgoCD.

Deploy Headscale on a bare-metal k3s cluster with Longhorn persistence, Traefik ingress, and Authelia OIDC authentication — fully GitOps-managed via ArgoCD.

How to automate wildcard Let's Encrypt certificates on a bare-metal K3s cluster using cert-manager's DNS-01 challenge with Cloudflare — and why HTTP-01 won't work for internal services.

How to manage an entire Kubernetes homelab — MetalLB, Traefik, Longhorn, Authelia, and more — as a Git repository using ArgoCD's App-of-Apps pattern.

How to get a real external IP on a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster using MetalLB L2 mode, and wire it up with Traefik for automatic HTTPS — fully GitOps-managed with ArgoCD.

How to build a production-grade Kubernetes homelab with K3s, Authelia SSO, Longhorn storage, and ArgoCD — and the five painful mistakes that will cost you hours if you don't know about them.

Take a tour of a fully automated, segmented, and highly available homelab architecture orchestrated entirely via Ansible and GitOps.

A complete guide to automating a local AI stack on Proxmox LXC using Terraform and Ansible, including Open-WebUI and AMD Radeon Vega iGPU workarounds.