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Evolving the Platform: Lighter Git, Simpler Orchestration, and a Clearer Homelab Topology
For a while I had k3s running in the lab because that felt like the “serious” thing to do. Spin up a Kubernetes cluster, deploy YAML, talk about nodes and pods. In practice I had a small number of services, a single operator, and a lot of overhead for not…
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Dev Platform: Git Service, Automation, Monitoring, and App Runtimes
I rebuilt my dev box so it behaves like a real platform instead of a pile of pets. The stack lives the same two-node Proxmox cluster I’ve been using. The controller node runs GitLab CE and a few utilities. The second node is a dedicated DevBox where I build and…
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Yes, You Can Code on an iPad: VS Code Server + Cloudflare + OpenAI
People love to say “you can’t develop on an iPad.” Cute take. I’m happily writing, linting, testing, and committing from a 2nd-gen 11” iPad Pro because the browser is just a window, and my homelab does the heavy lifting. The trick… run VS Code Server in the lab, publish it…
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2-Node Proxmox + 3-Node k3s, GitLab, and Backups
The first diagram is the “steel and wires” view: two Proxmox hosts on your 192.168.1.0/24 LAN, each carrying a tidy stack of VMs. pve2 is the busy one, home to the k3s control-plane (r9-ctrl at .30), the first worker (r9-node1 at .31), and your standalone GitLab VM (r9-gitlab at .45…
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1 Control / 2 Worker k3s on Rocky
I set up a three-node k3s cluster on Rocky Linux 9: one control plane (r9-ctrl, 192.168.1.30) and two workers (r9-node1 192.168.1.31, r9-node2 192.168.1.32). The goal was a light, repeatable Kubernetes base I can manage from my Mac without babysitting VMs. Everything lives on my LAN, no cloud necessary. All three…