Well it finally happened. After just over a year of its current incarnation and about another year on top of running without major downtime, I finally managed to break my Kubernetes (K8s) cluster to the point where I need to rebuild from scratch. Thankfully I still have access to my volume data so it should be recoverable, however I am using this opportunity to take stock of things and learn some lessons to make my life easier in the future. Read More

I have recently been learning and using Kubernetes in my homelab as a means to manage a lot of self-hosted apps. Overall I’ve been pretty happy with it and it has helped simplify my setup. The first question to answer is why to use a system such as this in the first place. In the last 10 years or so there has been quite a shift in the way that people deploy and run their applications and resources. Read More

When you enter my flat, you can hear the faint hum from the cupboard. Peering into it reveals a stack of networking and server equipment. When people see this, they often ask: What’s this all for and why do you have it? Homelabbing, as it’s known, is a hobby where people have enterprise level networking infrastructure and a variety of servers in their own home. It’s something that I had been doing on-and-off for about 5 years but more actively for the last 6 months (now that I have my own home). Read More

As part of my final year project at university, I created a basic implementation of a Web of Things network (more information can be found on my project page). It was my intention to carry on developing this project once I graduated, and evolve it into a much larger system than merely a proof of concept as it currently stands. I’m a bit delayed but now is the time to begin making those changes. Read More