#homelab

CloudNativePG doesn't support in-place major version upgrades. The migration required a fresh PVC, pg_dump/pg_restore, and a role discovery bug that nearly locked me out of the database. Here's the full procedure.

Cloudflare Tunnel returned 530 on every hostname while the container said healthy. Why local curl lied, and how to test the real path.

Renovate's Kubernetes CronJob OOM'd three times, silently failing every run while looking healthy. The fix wasn't just more memory — it was understanding why Renovate downloads every Terraform provider binary during a config validation.

A network scan sometimes looks as though it's found two routers. Maybe the same vendor name appears...

TL;DR I keep a task board for everything the house and my side projects need doing, and...

The short version What is the smallest number of containers you need to evaluate a...

Search for how much RAM a Proxmox server needs and you’ll usually get a number. 16 GB is...

For a family of four, self-hosted Odoo Community is worth it in exactly one case: you already run a...

A router lists a device as connected, but a network scanner can't find it. Or the scanner finds an...

Two small patches to a dependency file called ssdp.js. Four lines of changed JavaScript, total. They...

Infisical vs 1Password for homelab machine secrets: why I self-host, who holds the root key, and how I drive it all from the CLI and one resolver.

1. The Mission: Opting Out of the Subscription Trap We live in an era where we generate...