Short update on my life and homelab

Do you know those days that you cannot start doing anything, because you are going out in the evening?

That has been the situation for me for the last month and something. The construction of my future house is just about to start, and I could not make myself to start new things, or continue existing projects. But hopefully this hiatus will come to and end, the last bureaucratic (how do you spell that?!) things are being taken care of, the workers are appointed, the land is ready, and my stress levels should gradually decrease.

When it comes to my homelab, I have been doing some tiny changes, moving more stuff to my self-hosted Nextcloud instance, sorting out better ZFS backups.

I’m thinking of replacing my Kubernetes cluster with LXD. The issue that I have with Kubernetes that even in their simplified form that I am running, K3S, there are still too complicated for me and require too much attention and head space to use them efficiently. My cluster is running, but recently I restarted it and all the Ingress stuff stopped working, I can only reach the services via the Node IP. Why is that? I don’t know, I haven’t done good enough notes to debug it easily. And I very much despise the situation when my Homelab services are running in a way that I am afraid to do any changes lest they break. Especially when it comes to services that are becoming not Homelab but HomeProd.

On the other side, lately I have been enjoying using LXD, and I plan to move more of my services to it. So expect a few future blog post on the topic.

That’s basically it for now, just wanted to let you know that this blog is not dead and I have plans for new posts.

Thanks for reading!