Homelab Kubernetes Series
Complete 6-part guide
- 1
The Great WSL Escape - Why My Homelab Runs in a Hyper-V VM
Part 1 of my homelab series: Why running Kubernetes in WSL didn't work out and how Hyper-V with mirrored networking saved the day.
- 2
From Zero to K3s - Bootstrap Scripts and Time Sync Nightmares
Part 2 of my homelab series: Building an idempotent bootstrap script for K3s, and the VM time sync issue that broke everything.
- 3
GitOps All The Things - ArgoCD and the App-of-Apps Pattern
Part 3 of my homelab series: How ArgoCD's app-of-apps pattern manages 30+ applications with automatic sync and self-healing.
- 4
Service Mesh Adventures - Cilium, Istio Ambient, and the Ztunnel Saga
Part 4 of my homelab series: Running Cilium and Istio together, the ztunnel certificate nightmare, and hard-won lessons about service mesh on a single node.
- 5
Secrets Management with Infisical and External Secrets Operator
No secrets in Git, but GitOps needs secrets. How to use Infisical with External Secrets Operator to bridge the gap in Kubernetes.
- 6
Automated TLS Certificates with Let's Encrypt and DNS-01 Challenges
Free, automated TLS certificates for Kubernetes using cert-manager, Let's Encrypt, and Route53 DNS validation for wildcard domains.