So my #homelab #k3s cluster suffered an outage I've been trying to recover from since yesterday.

The outage itself started 4 days ago, and I discovered it when I couldn't get back into the house:

#HomeAssistant was unresponsive and I couldn't open my garage door.

To make for "one of those mornings" I then also couldn't unlock my front door **with my keys**. No electronic locks involved, no keys behind the door...

The lock itself would unlock but the door latch wouldn't open.

Yeah. Fun.

Well, bugger. I seem to have accidentally entirely deleted #VictoriaMetrics from my #K3s cluster while converting it from hand-installed to Helm-managed.

It's a good job that there was nothing particularly important in it.

The problem I have now is that Longhorn is now stuck while provisioning a PV while bringing VM back up again.

Hi everyone I guess it's time for my #introduction !
I present myself under the nickname of DocYeet, I am a software engineer who cares deeply about data privacy, digital sovereignty and decentralized tech in general

You will see me ramble about stuff like #k3s, #longhorn and #proxmox, as they take most of my time

You guessed it, I spend countless hours on my #homelab for #selfhosting :)

I need some help from the #selfhosting and #homelab community, I have reached full analysis paralysis!

I have 3 weeks left to determine what hardware to buy for my #selfhosted #homeprod my goal is to run #nextcloud & #immich in production well enough that It can seamlessly support my wife to #degoogle

I was leaning towards #talos cluster or #k3s for #kubernetes and #longhorn storage, but might all be overkill

Have determined I have these options are similar price & energy budget points:

@neil I am still amazed every time I try to play some free mobile game somewhere outside my home how many ads I’m skipping thanks to #pihole !

Highly recommend this ^^ !

(In my case, it’s 3 pihole instances on a #k3s cluster powered by 3 raspberries).

Getting closer to installing actual usable services on the #K3s cluster. So far, I've got:

- Node Feature Discovery
- cert-manager
- Intel Device Plugins
- Specifically for GPU HW acceleration in Jellyfin, Immich, etc.
- Descheduler
- Longhorn

Next up is Authentik and then off to the races.

Second attempt to play with #kubernetes with 6 nodes #k3s running as VMs on my #proxmox. 3 masters with #kubevip and 3 workers with #longhorn (Kubernetes cluster storage)

So far, so good, but I haven't deployed any services yet. Thanks to Proxmox snapshots, which allow for easy reversion after mistakes

On my todo list: Backup on my Synology, Nginx,…

My plan is to test the migration of my services to k3s in this virtual environment. After that, I will gradually move to dedicated nodes
#homelab

The mini-rack #K3s cluster is complete. Refamiliarizing with #Ansible to get everything set up because I'm going to finally have my #homelab configuration documented and backed up, dammit.

A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives

https://htdocs.dev/posts/kubernetes-deployment-strategies-for-small-businesses-on-hetzner-cloud-a-comparative-analysis-of-k3s-microk8s-and-alternatives/