/homelab
Posts touching homelab.
10 posts
- March 29, 2026 5 min
The Cloudflare container platform changes what I would self-host
Edge containers win for stateless batch jobs and lightweight APIs. Self-hosting still wins for stateful services and observability. The line is shifting faster than expected.
- /cloudflare
- /self-hosting
- /homelab
- /architecture
- /learning
- January 12, 2026 5 min
The homelab Loki stack that monitors my production alerts
A Grafana/Loki/Tempo stack on homelab k3s aggregates logs from personal projects and FinanceOps production alerting. A personal observability stack makes you a better leader.
- /homelab
- /observability
- /self-hosting
- /cloudflare
- /blog
- October 27, 2025 4 min
ArgoCD taught me that GitOps is about audit trails, not about git
After running ArgoCD in homelab and production for over a year, the real value is not deployment automation. It is the complete, immutable audit trail.
- /argocd
- /kubernetes
- /self-hosting
- /homelab
- /blog
- July 28, 2025 4 min
My homelab staging cluster caught a production bug before CI did
A memory leak only manifested under sustained 48-hour load. CI tests pass in seconds. The homelab k3s cluster caught what automated tests could not.
- /homelab
- /k3s
- /observability
- /ci-cd
- /experience
- June 16, 2025 4 min
Building Cloudflare Tunnel access to our homelab staging so the team stops saying "works on my machine"
Our k3s staging cluster sat behind my home network. Cloudflare Tunnels gave the whole team stable HTTPS access without exposing my home IP or managing VPN credentials.
- /cloudflare
- /homelab
- /self-hosting
- /ci-cd
- /blog
- December 23, 2024 4 min
Setting up k3s on a mini PC for staging and why every startup needs a junk drawer environment
A $300 mini PC running k3s gave our team a staging environment that mirrors production topology without the cloud bill. The real value was deployment confidence.
- /k3s
- /kubernetes
- /homelab
- /self-hosting
- /blog
- September 4, 2024 5 min
Observability on a shoestring: Grafana, Loki, and Tempo for free
We could not afford Datadog. I self-hosted the Grafana stack on our k3s homelab cluster and pointed production at it.
- /observability
- /kubernetes
- /homelab
- /docker
- /blog
- August 7, 2024 4 min
ArgoCD on a single-node k3s cluster: overkill or exactly right
Everyone told me ArgoCD on a single-node homelab was absurd. GitOps on a single node means I can rebuild from a Git repo in under 10 minutes.
- /argocd
- /k3s
- /homelab
- /kubernetes
- /blog
- July 3, 2024 4 min
Setting up Cloudflare Tunnels so I never open a port on my homelab again
I replaced every port forward with a zero-trust Cloudflare Tunnel in a single evening. Here is the exact setup.
- /cloudflare
- /homelab
- /self-hosting
- /security
- /blog
- May 15, 2024 4 min
My first homelab rack: a mini PC, k3s, and the itch to self-host everything
I bought a used mini PC for $180, installed k3s, and spent a weekend migrating my side projects off Vercel free tier.
- /homelab
- /k3s
- /self-hosting
- /experience