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Exposing our application to the internet Jun 21

The linkding app is now running on our cluster, but in order to make it useful it would be good to expose it to the internet.

Adding storage to our homelab application Jun 18

In order to persist any data that will be generated be linkding, we need to make sure that we have persistent storage.

Installing our first homelab application with GitOps Jun 14

After setting up Flux on the cluster, its time to put it to use! I’ll be deploying an app called Linkding, which is a bookmark manager.

GitOps with Flux Jun 11

Today I installed Flux onto the cluster in order to implement GitOps for my homelab.

Homelab high availability K3S cluster install Jun 10

I’ve completed the install of a high availability K3S cluster onto the 5 Optiplex machines. Had one or two issues, that meant I had to reinstall with a new secret, but otherwise was pretty smooth!

Homelab kickoff - host provisioning Jun 7

To start the homelab I’ve completed the installation of Ubuntu Server onto the 5 Dell Optiplex mini-pcs that will be running my Kubernetes homelab.

Arch Linux disk partitioning and encryption May 29

Yesterday I set out to work through getting disk encryption configured on one of the 5 OptiPlex 7040 Mini PCS that arrived yesterday. I will be setting up my homelab with these machines and want to make sure I have mastered the process of disk partitioning and encryption.