Grafana, Alloy, Loki, and Tempo for Shopify Oxygen Log & Trace Ingestion
A self-hosted solution for ingesting and visualizing Shopify Oxygen worker logs and traces using the Grafana ecosystem.
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Thoughts, tutorials, and explorations in tech, development, and homelab projects.
Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL Without an ORM: A Humbling Experience
What I learned migrating two Rust apps from SQLite to PostgreSQL without an ORM and why ORMs save you from so much pain.
Read more →Automating Proxmox Host Restarts with Gitea Actions
Building a fully automated workflow to safely restart Proxmox hosts while maintaining Kubernetes cluster availability and the journey of fixing everything that broke along the way.
Read more →Solving Docker Registry Authentication for Gitea Actions Runners
The journey from manual workflows to automated Docker authentication for self-hosted Gitea Actions runners in Kubernetes, and why imagePullSecrets don't solve everything.
Read more →Migrating from Bitnami PostgreSQL to CloudNativePG
How I migrated my homelab PostgreSQL databases from Bitnami to CloudNativePG after Broadcom paywalled their Bitnami images.
Read more →High Availability Control Plane using Talos VIP
Adding a Virtual IP to Talos Kubernetes for resilient control plane access
Read more →Monitoring Proxmox VM Disk Usage with Telegraf and SSH
How I built a monitoring solution to track real disk usage across all Proxmox VMs using Telegraf, SSH, and Kubernetes.
Read more →Setting Up Gitea for Homelab Automation
How I automated my homelab maintenance tasks using Gitea, Ansible, and self-hosted runners.
Read more →Creating a Personal Budget App and Converting it to Open Source
How I built an automated Github sync script to open source my personal budget app while protecting sensitive data
Read more →Fixing Local DNS Resolution with Cloudflare Warp and Zero Trust
Using Cloudflare Warp with Zero Trust is a great way to securely access your home network remotely, but local DNS resolution didn't work out of the box. Here’s how I made it work.
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