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Rock 5B vs Orange Pi 5 vs Pi 5
Rock 5B, Orange Pi 5, and Raspberry Pi 5 compared for home lab use, NVMe, 2.5GbE, NPU, Frigate, k3s performance, and which one you should actually buy.
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Velero: K8s Backup and DR
Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything, manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes, and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.
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BIOS/UEFI Tweaks for Headless Servers
Before you rack that server and walk away forever, these BIOS and UEFI settings will save you from a 3 AM drive to the datacenter or your dusty basement.
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Claude Code in a Homelab Workflow
Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.
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Kustomize vs Jsonnet for K8s Manifests
Kustomize patches YAML with overlays. Jsonnet is a real templating language with imports and functions. Here's which K8s manifest tool to pick.
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cert-manager: ACME at Scale
cert-manager makes Let's Encrypt automatic on Kubernetes, once. Then you scale, hit DNS-01 quirks, wildcard limits, and rate-limit walls. Here's the full survival guide.
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Rootless Docker: Tips, Gotchas & Fixes
Rootless Docker tuning deep-dive: network drivers, env vars, port drivers, cgroup delegation, and real troubleshooting, anchored to Docker Engine 29.x.
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Argo Rollouts vs Flagger Progressive Delivery
Argo Rollouts uses a Rollout CRD with a slick UI. Flagger watches your Deployment with a Canary CRD. Here's which progressive-delivery tool to pick.
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Network Booting Diskless Nodes with iPXE
Boot any OS over the network using iPXE, covers dnsmasq proxyDHCP setup, HTTP boot menus, Talos OS live boot, and the quick netboot.xyz shortcut method.
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Argo Workflows vs Tekton
Two Kubernetes-native pipeline engines from CNCF, Argo Workflows and Tekton. Different philosophies, same goal: stop using Jenkins. Honest comparison.
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DIY NAS Build: Compute, Drives, Power Walkthrough
Build a proper DIY NAS in 2026: case selection, CPU choice, drives, HBA card, ZFS pool layout, UPS sizing, and a real power budget that will not fail you.
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k3sup vs kubeadm for Homelab Clusters
kubeadm is the official Kubernetes bootstrapper. k3sup is a one-shot SSH installer for k3s. Here's which one to use for your homelab cluster.
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