/k3s
Posts touching k3s.
6 posts
- 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 23, 2025 4 min
Kubernetes 1.33 and the features that finally made me stop questioning container orchestration for small teams
Every six months someone says Kubernetes is overkill for a small team. Kubernetes 1.33 continued a trend of sane defaults and reduced overhead that invalidates that argument for teams deploying more than two services.
- /kubernetes
- /k3s
- /architecture
- /decision-making
- /blog
- April 7, 2025 5 min
ArgoCD and GitOps for a team of four: overkill or exactly right
After three months of ArgoCD managing our k3s and production clusters, the deployment confidence, audit trail, and rollback speed paid for the setup cost within the first incident.
- /argocd
- /kubernetes
- /ci-cd
- /k3s
- /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
- 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
- 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