Tag
Kubernetes
7 articles
- Full Observability on k3s: kube-prometheus-stack + Loki + Grafana OIDC04 Jul 2026Deploy 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.
- k3s Backup Without the Complexity: Velero + Garage S3 on Longhorn20 Jun 2026Replace MinIO with Garage — a single 50MB binary — as the Velero backup target. Full daily cluster backups with Longhorn volume snapshots, deployed via ArgoCD.
- Self-Hosted Tailscale Control Plane: Headscale on k3s with Authelia OIDC13 Jun 2026Deploy Headscale on a bare-metal k3s cluster with Longhorn persistence, Traefik ingress, and Authelia OIDC authentication — fully GitOps-managed via ArgoCD.
- Wildcard TLS Certificates on K3s with cert-manager and Cloudflare DNS22 May 2026How 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.
- GitOps on K3s: Managing a Complete Homelab with ArgoCD20 May 2026How to manage an entire Kubernetes homelab — MetalLB, Traefik, Longhorn, Authelia, and more — as a Git repository using ArgoCD's App-of-Apps pattern.
- Bare-Metal LoadBalancer on K3s: MetalLB + Traefik with ArgoCD18 May 2026How 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.
- Enterprise Homelab: K3s, Authelia & Longhorn on Proxmox with Terraform16 May 2026How 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.