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:

#homelab #k3s #kubernetes

Simulating Network Latency in Kubernetes with Traffic Control (tc)

https://ruivieira.dev/blog/2025_07_11.html

#kubernetes #networking#DevOps

Simulating Network Latency in Kubernetes with Traffic Control (tc)

https://ruivieira.dev/blog/2025_07_11.html

#kubernetes #networking#DevOps

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

New blog post: A detailed look at the new network setup

https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-07-02-network-rebuild-project/

Almost everything was rebuilt, and multiple layers of complexity were eliminated
#Homelab #Networking #Kubernetes #Mikrotik

New blog post: A detailed look at the new network setup

https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-07-02-network-rebuild-project/

Almost everything was rebuilt, and multiple layers of complexity were eliminated
#Homelab #Networking #Kubernetes #Mikrotik

Kurzer Nachtrag, ich möchte ja auch Lösungen liefern:

Sollte jemand interesse an einer skalierbaren, sicheren und preiswerten Infrastruktur inkl. Chat, Video, Cloud (inkl Collabora), Wiki, Mastodon, sowie Groupware (open XChange) und IDM an alle Dienste interessiert sein, gerne melden. Wir haben dieses System letztes Jahr mit dem Relaunch des NABU-Netz komplett auf open-source Basis für mehrere tausend Personen bereits umgesetzt.

#opensource #naturschutz #datenschutz #kubernetes #opencloud #matrix #keycloak #bookstack #opentofu #openxchange #mastodon #jitsi

deuxième sujet.
Nous allons certainement proposer des l'hébergement de machines virtuelles et de clusters #Kubernetes, pour nos membres. Il faudra notamment choisir entre plusieurs hyperviseurs. En partant de zéro, comment faire simple, si possible libre, pas trop cher et facile à administrer ?

Pour le moment, on a du #proxmox et du #ceph. Est-ce que cela vaut le coup de monter en technicité avec d'autres hyperviseurs ou vaut-il mieux s'investir dans l'administration k8s sur nos VM ?