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

Creating a Talos kubernetes 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. ...

January 4, 2026 · 15 min · 3053 words · Me

Set up nginx-proxy-manager with LetsEncrypt SSL certificates

In the next few posts, I’m going to document how to set up Home Assistant (HA) from scratch. We’re going to want to protect the admin UI interfaces for HA and its support services with SSL, and add authentication to services that don’t provide it themselves. We’re going to do this with Nginx Proxy Manager because it has built in support for using LetsEncrypt to obtain free SSL certificates, supports adding authentication to services that don’t do it themselves, and is overall easy to use. Before I start writing more Home Assitant articles, let’s set up a SSL proxy server to keep everything secure. ...

July 22, 2023 · 10 min · 2101 words · Me