Tag: infra

Two years after HashiCorp's BUSL switch and IBM's acquisition, OpenTofu is the mature open-source Terraform fork. Here's the honest state of play.

Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage, Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.

OpenRouter is a hosted gateway, LiteLLM a self-hosted proxy, and Stripe now owns one of them. Which one belongs in your home lab as of August 2026?

Appwrite is self-hosted BaaS: auth, databases, storage, and serverless functions on hardware you control. Docker setup plus a Supabase/PocketBase comparison.

ArgoCD vs Flux for Kubernetes GitOps: compare UI-focused ArgoCD with automation-first Flux CD. Sync workflows, install examples, and when to use each.

Your VM's clock is off by minutes, NTP says it's synced, yet the system keeps drifting. Here's why the hypervisor is the real culprit, and how to fix it.

HashiCorp Vault tutorial: KV v2 secrets, AppRole auth, dynamic database credentials that auto-expire, a PKI certificate authority, and auto-unseal with cloud KMS.

Run BGP in your home lab with FRRouting. Covers iBGP vs eBGP, FRR installation, basic BGP config, peering with OPNsense, route filtering, and when BGP is actually worth the complexity.

BookStack uses a strict book/chapter hierarchy; Wiki.js is a linked web of pages. Both run in Docker with LDAP/SSO, pick the right one for your homelab.

Proxmox vs XCP-ng compared for homelabbers: KVM vs Xen, ZFS support, web UI vs Xen Orchestra, backups, and which free hypervisor fits your spare rack server.

What is lost+found and why does it exist? fsck puts recovered file fragments there after a crash, and no, you can't delete it.

The -v and --mount flags for Docker volumes explained, bind mounts vs named volumes, read-only, propagation, and tmpfs options.