This post is part of a series on transforming my home Kubernetes cluster into a Highly Available (HA) setup. On my last blog post, I documented an incident with my cluster and wrote a post-mortem report to ensure it doesn’t happen again. So this blog post is about taking
A Rough Homecoming After a recent trip, I finally returned home a week ago. Between unpacking and catching up on household chores, I hadn’t found time to work on my cluster. Unfortunately, sometime during the week, a power outage caused all my machines to shut down unexpectedly. When I
In my previous blog post, we explored how to securely expose services using the Cloudflare Operator and Cloudflared tunnels (previously known as Argo Tunnels). While external security is critical, securing and managing secrets inside your cluster is just as essential—and often overlooked. Kubernetes secrets store sensitive information like API
On my last blog post, I explained why Exposing your public IP for your homelab is a bad Idea and introduced Cloudflare Tunnels as a great alternative to securely expose your services. In this blog post, we will dive into how to expose services from your Kubernetes cluster to the
In the last blog post, we explored how to use GitOps in a Kubernetes cluster and deployed Linkding, a self-hosted bookmark manager. Deploying self-hosted applications brings a unique sense of accomplishment. You’re running a service that’s fully yours, tailored to your needs. But once you’ve got these
Welcome to Part III of my K8s home lab blog series! At this point, we have a fully functioning Kubernetes cluster capable of running workloads. Now, instead of manually deploying Helm charts or Kubernetes manifests into our cluster, we’re going to adopt a more streamlined and efficient method: the
Deploying Kubernetes in an on-premises environment offers various options depending on your needs and technical expertise. You can use kubeadm (the tool often associated with the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification), minikube, or even Talos. For this setup, I chose K3s because it’s simple, lightweight, and incredibly easy to
When you think about a Kubernetes cluster with multiple master nodes and worker nodes, a picture like this might come to mind: This setup is typical for cloud vendors or companies running on-premises servers to host their own Kubernetes clusters. But maybe this image didn’t even cross your mind
Hi there! 👋 I'm Barush Méndez, a recent Computer Science graduate and a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over five years of hands-on experience in the IT industry. If you've stumbled upon this corner of the internet (which is running on a Kubernetes Cluster on my basement)