✅ Mission Accomplished: Migrated my Blog to a Hybrid K3s Setup!
Alright — today was an absolute banger of a day! 🔥 What I Got Done After grinding through the last few evenings on the PC, I finally pulled it off:…
Pi-hole: My Nerdy Little Guardian of the Internet
I’m still a big fan of the Pi-hole project. In my setup, Pi-hole runs 24/7 and basically acts as my personal DNS server. That means it handles all domain name…
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.…
Automatically Verifying All RAR Archives with a Bash Script
In my previous article I described how I reorganized several terabytes of personal data and bundled large collections of photos into RAR archives. This approach dramatically reduced the number of…
Archiving Terabytes of Personal Data – My Nerdy RAR + Bash Workflow
Over the past decades I have accumulated a few terabytes of personal data. Mostly things like: Photos Music Documents Videos Random project backups For a long time everything lived in…
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…
😱 Today I Almost Threw My Entire Rack into the Trash…
😱 Today I Almost Threw My Entire Rack into the Trash… So, today I had one of those classic homelab panic moments. 😅 I was copying a huge dataset back…
🔄 Rethinking the Plan (Again)
Well… it happened again 😄 After writing the original plan and thinking about the architecture for a while, I started questioning some of my decisions. That’s the nice thing about…
🧠 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…