Ditching Ollama for LocalAI, battling P2P federation that doesn't work in Kubernetes, and building a self-hosted AI stack with persistent memory.
A journey through TrueNAS, Oracle Cloud, and Hetzner before finally landing on AWS Graviton for running Android containers with acceptable latency from New Zealand.
Deploying Pterodactyl Panel on Kubernetes with Wings running on TrueNAS for self-hosted game server management
How a CephFS sparse file handling quirk silently corrupted my app configs during VolSync restores—and the multi-day recovery effort across qbittorrent, sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr, and filebrowser using a mix of Kopia snapshots and old Restic backups.
A real-world walkthrough of upgrading Ceph from v18 (Reef) through v19 (Squid) to v20 (Tentacle) via GitOps—including the correction of my wrong assumptions about Rook version constraints.
BGP was supposed to fix my hairpin routing issues. It didn't. Here's how CoreDNS rewriting saved the day when pods couldn't reach LoadBalancer VIPs on the same node.
How I replaced Barman Cloud Plugin with pgBackRest to get true dual-destination full backups to both Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare R2, then migrated my entire PostgreSQL infrastructure to PostgreSQL 18.
Why I moved from Cilium L2 announcements to BGP for LoadBalancer IP advertisement, and how a dedicated Services VLAN simplified everything.
Why I deployed a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner and Cloudflare Pages to serve JSON schemas extracted from my cluster's CRDs, eliminating dependency on third-party schema hosts.
Why etcd fragments over time and how to reclaim disk space with talosctl etcd defrag.