Sean Tilley
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Hang on, you can use cloud tech to make your homelab easier to manage?

Yes you can! I spin up and configure VMs automatically and safely on my homelab. Come with me as I write and cast spells to spin up VMs and deploy Kubernetes on them!

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/20-cloud-tech-on-prem/

#homelab#selfHosting #kubernetes

I really enjoy self-hosting things, I just wish I didn't have to do it to keep my data safe, because some less savvy people can't afford to do it.

But since I'm self-hosting, I might as well use tools that make my life easier. I recently discovered that Kubernetes is not just for large scale organizations, it solves problems individual self-hosters do have.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/09-kubernetes-black-friday/

#kubernetes #selfhosting

Current blog pipeline:

1. 🕐️ How I use Bitwarden to keep my homelab credentials safe
2. 👀 A flexible and safe homelab with Proxmox
3. 👀 How bridged networks actually work
4. ✍️ A reproducible homelab with opentofu, cloud-init and ansible
5. 🕐️ GitOps with Flux and encrypted secrets with SOPS and age
6. 🕐️ Deploying in a Specific Order with Flux Kustomizations
7. 🧪 Kubernetes monitoring
8. 🧪 Kubernetes backups

🧪 Experimenting
✍️ Writing
👀 Under review
🕐️ Scheduled

#devops #kubernetes #homelab

Me in March: "k3s sounds like a fun toy, I'll play with it a bit"

Me in July, emerging from the homelab rabbit hole with my hands full of VMs, clusters and services of all kinds:

I used to think Kubernetes was complex machinery solving scalability problems I would never have. I was wrong.

Kubernetes has less moving parts than my handmade deployments. It's sturdier than my hand written playbooks. It solves problems I already have.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/09-kubernetes-black-friday/

#kubernetes#selfHosting #homelab