#homelab
8 posts tagged “homelab”.
What Your Observability Actually Costs
The observability bill is not a SaaS invoice. It is cardinality, retention, RAM and the alerts you stopped trusting. Four cost centres measured on my own cluster, including the cardinality bomb I found in my own Collector config.
Dozzle: When You Don't Need an Observability Stack
I spent two posts shaping telemetry with OTTL and profiling the fourth signal. My homelab runs a log viewer that starts in ten seconds. Both are correct - and knowing which problem you have is the entire skill.
When Your Homelab Grows Up: How SQLite Took Down My k3s Control Plane
A postmortem from my Hetzner k3s cluster: how the default SQLite/kine datastore hit a compaction death-spiral, and why I moved to embedded etcd.
KWOK: Simulate a 1000-Node Kubernetes Cluster on Your Laptop
A deep dive into KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet): how it simulates thousands of nodes in seconds, when to use it, and how to wire it into CI.
The Ultimate Homelab: A Deep-Dive into an Automated K3s Cluster on Hetzner
A technical guide to building a secure, automated, production-ready Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner Cloud with Terraform, Ansible and Tailscale.
Unifying My Smart Home and Homelab: Bridging Home Assistant MQTT to a Kubernetes Data Platform
Integrating Home Assistant's MQTT data with EMQX, InfluxDB and Grafana on a k3d Kubernetes cluster for long-term storage and analytics.
Podman vs Docker Desktop: Choose Your Runtime
Based on community feedback, the homelab project now supports both Podman and Docker Desktop. Here's how to choose and switch between them.
Building a Production-Grade Kubernetes Homelab on macOS: The Complete Guide
Build a portable, cloud-native Kubernetes environment on macOS with Podman and k3d: NFS storage, Tailscale networking, and the architecture decisions.