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