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  1. Fixing Discord Alerts on kube-prometheus-stack

    My Alertmanager Was Silently Dead for Two Days: Fixing Discord Alerts on kube-prometheus-stack

    15 min read

  2. Managing Talos machine config with patches, mise and hunk

    My homelab cluster, portland, is three Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micros running Talos Linux. All three are control-plane nodes that also run workloads. Everything inside Kubernetes is GitOps'd through Argo CD, but the Talos machine config underneath it was... not. I'd been changing nodes with talosctl patch machineconfig, one patch at a time, and slowly losing track of what was actually on each box.

    17 min read

  3. Quick way to setup Proxmox with Tailscale for remote access

    I sometimes work remotely (away from my cosy home office) and I need to access my homelab from any location. Accessing Proxmox using Tailscale is super easy. First you will need to install Tailscale on your Proxmox nodes.

    3 min read

  4. Setting up SeaweedFS

    When it comes to homelab and storage there are many options, and for a long while MinIO was the default answer. Spin up a container, point your apps at it, done. It just worked, so nobody really questioned it.

    7 min read