Creating a Talos cluster with a Cilium CNI on Proxmox
I’ve been meaning to set up a talos cluster in my homelab for a while and set one up over the holiday break. Here’s how I did it. ...
K8s
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 in docker-compose. I decided to use my Synology to store k8s volumes, here’s how I set that up ...
Weird shit is afoot with macOS and iTerm
So here’s a fun macOS weirdness I ran into this weekend where I couldn’t connect to a port on another machine from a shell session inside of iTerm, even though I was able to ssh to other hosts. ...
Backing Up the Cluster with Duplicacy
Do not use duplicacy! TL;DR: duplicacy is unusable if you’re serious about backing up your data. Use restic instead! I wanted to ensure any data I put into my ARM k3s cluster is backed up to prevent data loss. I no longer recommend duplicacy. Instead, read my article on restic backups on TrueNas instead. 2025 edit: This post is only here for historical reasons. Do NOT use duplicacy. It does not report backup errors in its exit code. You will have to parse its logs yourself and hope your regex didn’t miss an error condition. And every update, you’ll have to check and make sure it hasn’t changed anything that your regex was catching. Backups are supposed to be something you set up once and ignore other than to do periodic restore tests, and duplicacy fails that simple criteria. ...
Trying K3s on ARM, Part 1
Why k3s and not stick with k8s? I wanted to experiment with k3s. They package everything you need in a single binary, don’t package in deprecated parts of k8s, and it works on Intel, ARMv7 and ARM64. It seemed like it’d be a less painful way to runn Kubernetes on my ARM cluster. ...
Parts list for the ARM cluster
I realized I forgot to include a parts list for the cluster in my ARM cluster post (all prices are as of March 3rd, 2019), so here we go. ...
Getting an ARM kubernetes cluster up and running
I recently decided to set up a Kubernetes cluster in my basement, partly because I’d never set a cluster up from scratch by myself, and partly because my existing NAS was beginning to run out of headroom. ...