I wanted to install Longhorn on my Talos cluster and found out how involved it can be, especially if you are not used to the whole immutable OS's. Longhorn needs iscsi-tools and util-linux-tools . This is how I ended up installing them Extensions 1. First create an extensions.yaml

Following the post systemd-and-proxmox-day-3, I eventually declustered my Proxmox nodes. Now with the addition of a new MinisForum MS01, I did some rebuilding and went back to Proxmox clusters. The current setup includes both PCs in a cluster, deliberately excluding the OPNsense Proxmox node, with the main advantage of clustering

Setting up a high-availability Kubernetes cluster with Talos

What Are Search Domains? Search domains are DNS suffixes automatically appended to unqualified hostnames to help resolve local network resources. When you type server1instead of server1.home.network, your system will try both. The Problem When combined with wildcard DNS records (*.domain.tld), search domains can cause external domains to

Automating Kubernetes secret management with ArgoCD, SOPS and helmfile for a fully GitOps-driven workflow.

Continuing from the previous ChartMuseum setup entry, today was about solving the DNS resolution and network connectivity issues (some of which had to do with my firewall blocking traffic across certain VLANs). The DNS Challenge Yesterday ended with this error: DEBUG Fetching chart list from storage ERROR RequestError: send request

Setting up a self-hosted Helm chart repository with ChartMuseum and Minio.

CrowdSec is a security tool that detects and blocks malicious IPs using a collaborative approach to share threat intelligence across users. I initially planned to run CrowdSec just on Traefik, but having it at the firewall level provides more protection for all devices on the network. Installation CrowdSec has a

Using SOPS with Age encryption for secret management, Bitwarden Secrets Manager for key storage, and integrating it all with Terragrunt for secure infrastructure as code.

Got a new drive to add to my storage pool and TrueNAS Scale now supports RAIDZ VDEV extension. Which is a relatively new feature, introduced in TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel). Steps: 1. Navigate to the storage pool 2. Select "Manage Devices" 3. Choose the VDEV you want