TAG: #infrastructure

How I tested whether server-local AI could handle financial document extraction well enough to avoid relying on a large hosted model API.

What I learned turning a homelab budgeting tool into my first paid SaaS, and why the post itself got delayed.

Taking a tutorial-based Godot multiplayer game and reshaping it around a real backend, with deployment and scaling constraints in mind.

A self-hosted solution for ingesting and visualizing Shopify Oxygen worker logs and traces using the Grafana ecosystem.

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.

The journey from manual workflows to automated Docker authentication for self-hosted Gitea Actions runners in Kubernetes, and why imagePullSecrets don't solve everything.

How I migrated my homelab PostgreSQL databases from Bitnami to CloudNativePG after Broadcom paywalled their Bitnami images.

Adding a Virtual IP to Talos Kubernetes for resilient control plane access

How I built a monitoring solution to track real disk usage across all Proxmox VMs using Telegraf, SSH, and Kubernetes.

How I automated my homelab maintenance tasks using Gitea, Ansible, and self-hosted runners.

A straightforward, secure way to route Grafana alerts through Gmail using Cloudflare Email Routing and Kubernetes secrets.