Welcome to another edition of Caffeinated Coder! Today we're going to be taking a quick look at my set up to maintain the state of my k3s cluster in my home lab. This guide unlocks the simplicity of setting up and scaling your K3s nodes in a home lab environment using GitLab CI/CD. Imagine a YAML-driven pipeline that …

I'm back from a bit of a hectic time in my life! My wife and I had a new baby girl, and parents who've gone through the newborn phase know, that there's precious little time to be hacking away at your computer outside work when you have a little one crying upstairs. But now that she's kind of sleep trained, I'm back …

For a while now, I've been wanting a better set up on my home lab K3s cluster for exposing pods outside of the cluster itself for accesibility within my home network. After polling the community on this matter, I found that MetalLB is the recommended tool to use for this. So this post will go over my experience setting …

In my previous post, I described a Helmfile deployment for observability around website monitoring. Now, as your monitoring needs grow, that Helmfile deployment will undergo more and more changes. To properly handle this at a larger scale, CI/CD is a must. In this post, we'll take a quick run through of a basic CI/CD …

If there's one thing I've learned during my time in the software industry, its that monitoring your software is important. If you want your website to be taken seriously, you don't want it to all of a sudden be down without you knowing for hours, or even days. This is where the topics of monitoring, alerting and …

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! Well, the blog's been live for a few weeks now, and I've left you lovely folks hanging with a single post about how the blog is hosted. Well, what better way to ring in the new year than writing about one of my favorite infrastructure as code languages, Helm. As every good DevOps engineer …