Install
Kubernetes (Homelab)
K8s basics, helm charts, storage classes, and small‑cluster ops for homelabs.
- 10 Tracked terms
- Last 30 days Feed window
What this topic collects on
An article joins this feed when it matches these terms. Each one is also a search of its own.
Related topics
Latest in Kubernetes (Homelab)
Install and Set Up kubectl on Linux
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (887+ words) You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your cluster. For example, a v1.37 client can communicate with v1.36, v1.37, and v1.38 control planes. Using the latest compatible version of kubectl helps avoid unforeseen issues. The following methods…...
Engineering Build Notes #3: When 200Gi Was More Storage Than the Nodes Needed
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (1254+ words) How measuring Kubernetes node storage usage led to a simpler capacity decision in an Amazon EKS cluster. In Engineering Build Notes #1, I investigated what initially looked like an opportunity to reduce worker-node capacity. The nodes appeared to have more capacity…...
EC2 Instance Unreachable via SSM Session Manager
4+ hour, 17+ min ago (595+ words) This runbook resolves the situation where an EC2 instance is running and visible in the console but either does not appear in the Systems Manager Fleet Manager inventory, or returns a connection error when you attempt to start a Session Manager…...
I recorded my Kubernetes AI agent failing, on purpose
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (457+ words) Most demos of AI-for-infrastructure tools show a clean run. I think that is exactly backwards, and I want to explain why by walking through the thirty seconds of my own demo that a normal product video would have cut. A…...
Set a Pause to Over-Engineering: Why AWS Lambda MicroVMs Will Serve Indie Developers in 2026
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (373+ words) 1.True State Retention Without Complicated Databases Earlier, if you wanted your backend code to retain a simple piece of information from a past user action, you had to store that data in an external database, such as Amazon DynamoDB. For…...
When Kubernetes Safety Rules Fight Each Other: 3 Ways Node Upgrades Can Break Your Cluster
5+ hour, 38+ min ago (1230+ words) Kubernetes is designed to make infrastructure changes safer. During a node upgrade, cluster maintenance …...
How I Built an Agentless Self-Hosting Orchestrator with 100+ Tested Stacks & 100% Local AI
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (417+ words) For anyone passionate about digital sovereignty and homelabbing, setting up a private home server on a Single Board Computer (like a Raspberry Pi 5, Orange Pi) or a Proxmox home lab is one of the most rewarding engineering projects. However, anyone…...
Our users’ phones were the backup: rebuilding a lost database from app caches
9+ hour ago (223+ words) How expired cache entries on readers’ devices, server logs, and a year-old dump were merged back into MongoDB without …...
We Let An Agent Manage Kubernetes For A Week. Day 5 Is Why We Stopped
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (37+ words) Our agent scaled the payments deployment from twelve pods down to two, and then posted a calm message in Slack explaining why …...
Bypassing the BIOS: Fixing Minikube’s "VT-X/AMD-v Enabled is Mandatory" Error Without a VM
16+ hour, 41+ min ago (24+ words) I was interested in touching the surface of Kubernetes ecosystem of some sort, so I decided to touch... Tagged with cloudnative, programming, opensource, tutorial....