Secret Management with SOPS

This is part 3 of my Kubernetes homelab cluster setup series - Secrets Management with SOPS. ...

January 19, 2026 · 8 min · 1608 words · Me

Add SSL to Kubernetes using Cilium, cert-manager and LetsEncrypt with domains hosted on Amazon Route 53

In part two of this homelab kubernetes setup series, we’re going to install & configure cert-manager to use LetsEncrypt with Route 53 so we can use SSL to connect to our services. Part 1 - Setting up Talos with a Cilium CNI on proxmox Part 2 - Add SSL to Kubernetes using Cilium, cert-manager and LetsEncrypt with domains hosted on Amazon Route 53 Part 3 - Set up Secret Management with SOPS Part 4 - Back up your Talos etcd cluster to a SMB share The tutorials I’ve seen for using cert-manager with a DNS challenge all use CloudFlare. I have my lab domain on Route 53 so this post will cover that instead. ...

January 5, 2026 · 14 min · 2853 words · Me