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✅ Mission Accomplished: Migrated my Blog to a Hybrid K3s Setup!

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:52:09 +0200

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: I successfully migrated my blog to a hybrid architecture.

The setup now looks like this:

Some services are running natively directly on the VPS
The rest — especially the entire WordPress application — is containerized and orchestrated with K3s

The Results Are Clean

I’m honestly stoked: Everything is running stable, all data and images have been migrated successfully, and the best part is:

From Debian to AlmaLinux to K3s: Or How I Accidentally Built a Mini Cloud 🚀

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:02:37 +0200

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 idea.(Narrator voice: It was not a totally reasonable idea.)

The Original Plan™: Leave Debian, Embrace SELinux

At some point I thought: “Hey, why not move from Debian to AlmaLinux?”

Main reason? SELinux.

Because nothing says “fun weekend project” like debugging security contexts at 2 AM.

Adventures in IPv6, Firewalls & the “Oops-I-Forgot” Department 🚀

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:17:34 +0200

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 to show off and run one of those fancy SSL / web server grading tools. You know, the nerd’s equivalent of flexing in front of a mirror. 😎

...and then BAM 💥: my blog was completely invisible over IPv6. Like, gone. As if Thanos snapped half the packets away. 🫰