Back up your Talos etcd cluster to a smb share

In this post, I will show how to access smb shares outside the cluster from a Kubernetes Pod. The example is backing up the etcd cluster in my Talos k8s cluster to a share, but you can use this for any service (like Plex or Jellyfin) that need access to files on a NAS. This is part four of my Homelab Kubernetes series. ...

January 24, 2026 · 9 min · 1783 words · Me

Using a NFS Provisioner with Talos

I’ve been experimenting with running Talos in my home lab. I really like the idea of an immutable OS layer under Kubernetes and wanted to stand up a cluster to run some of my services that are currently run with docker-compose. I decided to use my Synology to store k8s volumes, here’s how I set that up. ...

December 12, 2025 · 7 min · 1304 words · Me