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Collect, store, and query Kubernetes logs using Loki with MinIO object storage and Grafana.

How to set up free, reliable alerting for your homelab using Prometheus Alertmanager and Discord webhooks.

A practical, beginner-friendly observability setup for a two-host Proxmox homelab: Prometheus + Grafana in Kubernetes, scraping Proxmox hosts and Pi-hole.

How to deploy Pi-hole for network-wide DNS, use it for homelab wildcard domains, and configure UniFi as a backup DNS.

Implement GitOps workflows for automated, declarative deployments using ArgoCD - manage your entire homelab from Git

Add automatic HTTPS with Let's Encrypt certificates using cert-manager, securing your Kubernetes applications with trusted SSL/TLS.

Deploy a complete stateful application using persistent storage, ingress routing, and DNS in your homelab Kubernetes cluster.

Add real DNS and LoadBalancer services to a homelab Kubernetes cluster using MetalLB and local DNS integration.

Install Traefik as a Gateway API controller and expose apps using Gateway + HTTPRoute (a modern replacement path for Ingress).

Installing Longhorn to provide persistent volumes for workloads running on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on Proxmox.

Installing Kubernetes components, initializing the control plane, and joining worker nodes on Proxmox.

Cloning a Proxmox VM template into Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes and preparing them for cluster bootstrap.

Setting up a reusable Linux VM template in Proxmox to power Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes.

How I set up Proxmox and UniFi networking to support a production-like Kubernetes homelab, including VLANs, firewall pitfalls, and lessons learned.

How to choose the right hardware for running Kubernetes at home: mini PCs, memory requirements, storage considerations, and why I chose what I did.

How replacing consumer networking gear with UniFi unlocked VLANs, better visibility, and a production-like foundation for Proxmox and Kubernetes.

What this blog is about and what you can expect going forward