/self-hosting
Posts touching self hosting.
8 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
- 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
- May 5, 2025 4 min
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo: building an observability stack that a four-person team actually uses
Most observability guides assume a platform team. We do not have one. The hard part was not installation but building dashboards engineers actually check daily.
- /observability
- /kubernetes
- /architecture
- /self-hosting
- /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
- 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