Homelab

What is GitOps? GitOps? So… Using Git to Operate? Git runs operations? Like CI/CD pipelines? Well, yeah, kinda. In short GitOps is using GitHub or any other version control system to act as a source of truth. Then when ever a change is made to Git, it should be reflected in the Kubernetes cluster. In practice for this means that I will have a repository on GitHub, and when ever I push to main, there will be a system living in my cluster watching this repository, reconciling the resources in the cluster according to what ever is in the repository. ...

My homelab is growing In December my Christmas gift to my self was a Raspberry Pi 5 and two Lenovo Thinkcenter m720q. Yes, I guess I was nice this year. It was going to be three or four Raspberry Pi 5s, but I change my mind after ordering one Pi and ended up with a mix. Oh well, shouldn’t matter too much. The reason I bought this was to finally set up a Kubernetes cluster in my homelab on bare metal. I have done some experimenting with setting up a K8s cluster in Proxmox. But I didn’t want to have a combined NAS, hyperscaler AND Kubernetes cluster all in one physical machine. And have been wanting to create a Raspberry Pi cluster for a long time. And in my humble opinion, bare metal is just cooler than VMs. ...