Velero + MinIO: Kubernetes Backup Strategy for Bare Metal
Moving beyond cloud S3 to a bare-metal backup strategy using Velero, MinIO, and Longhorn. Lessons on CSI snapshots and ETCD persistence.
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Longhorn Volume Health: The Gap Between 'Healthy' and Actually Working
Stop trusting the Longhorn UI blindly. Learn to monitor replication, fix stale mounts, and manage snapshot bloat in production K8s storage.
Self-Improving AI Infrastructure: How Your Homelab Wiki Updates Itself
How to automate your homelab wiki with self-improving AI infrastructure
Pod Disruption Budgets: Why kubectl drain Gets Stuck on Longhorn
Pod Disruption Budgets can block kubectl drain on Longhorn. Here's how to avoid it.
Kubernetes Storage on Bare Metal: Longhorn in Practice
How I configured Longhorn storage for a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal — what worked, what didn't, and what I'd do differently next time.
Building a Production Homelab: Multi-Node Proxmox Cluster with Kubernetes
How I built a multi-node Proxmox cluster running Kubernetes with GPU passthrough, GitOps, and dozens of services — and what broke along the way.