One Year Later: I Finally Open-Sourced My Homelab K3s Stack
In a few of my recent posts I mentioned that I was trying to figure out how to publish my homelab automation code *without accidentally open-sourcing my entire infrastructure along…
git log –since=”1 year ago”: One Year of apt-upgrade.me && Publishing the Ansible Playbooks for Nextcloud on K3s
There comes a point in every homelab journey where you look at your pile of bash scripts, hand-crafted config files, and sticky notes that say things like “remember to chown…
WordPress on K3s — A Nerdy, Layered Update Strategy
This article is a direct continuation of the previous guide. If you haven’t read it yet, start here: Initial Setup: WordPress on K3s (Ansible-managed). This guide describes a clean, deterministic…
From Debian to AlmaLinux to K3s: Or How I Accidentally Built a Mini Cloud 🚀
If you’ve stumbled across my previous post “Operating Community Nextcloud Instances with Ansible, AlmaLinux, SELinux and a Podman-based Collabora Stack” , you already know this started as a totally reasonable…
Installing Longhorn on a 3-Node Homelab Cluster
If you’re running a small Kubernetes homelab and want persistent storage with redundancy, Longhorn is an excellent choice. 🚀 Longhorn is a lightweight, cloud-native distributed block storage system for Kubernetes.…
My First Kubernetes Cluster in the Homelab
Today I set up a Kubernetes cluster in my homelab – abbreviated K8s 😁. I’ve had some professional exposure to Kubernetes before, but I wanted to run a Nextcloud installation…
🧠 Operating Community Nextcloud Instances with Ansible, AlmaLinux, SELinux and a Podman-based Collabora Stack
I currently operate multiple Nextcloud instances for two local community organizations in a purely voluntary capacity. The original motivation was twofold: enabling digital sovereignty while turning the entire setup into…
🤖 From ChatGPT to Claude: Adventures of a Slightly Terrified Nerd in VS Code
AI coding experiments, Ansible chaos, and that moment when the machine stares back at you… 👀 🧠 My AI Workflow So Far I’ve been using ChatGPT for over a year…
Adventures in IPv6, Firewalls & the “Oops-I-Forgot” Department 🚀
So, a few days ago I thought: “Hey, let’s be cool, ditch Apache, and hop onto the Nginx hype train because… HTTP/3, baby!” 🎉 Fast-forward to today, when I decided…
How I Managed to Wreck My Firewall Appliance With a Debian 13 Upgrade
Yesterday I proudly hit publish on a post about my super smooth upgrade to Debian 13… feeling like a proper Linux wizard. 🧙♂️ A few hours later, reality slapped me…