How I turned a laptop in Texas and an ARM server in Arizona into a single Kubernetes cluster — joined over Tailscale, running a multi-architecture workload that survives a node going dark. A step-by-step build guide, plus the moment I realized my monitoring couldn't tell me when my home lost internet, and how I fixed it.
Follow my journey of turning a dusty old laptop into a powerful, secure homelab for $0. A complete guide to self-hosting, DevOps, and cloud tools.
How I brought my hybrid cloud homelab under Terraform management — 13 Cloudflare DNS records, an Oracle Cloud instance, remote state in AWS S3, and a GitHub Actions pipeline with secretless OIDC authentication. No more clicking around in dashboards.
A personal blog post on the motivation and journey behind building a private, ad-blocking DNS server on AWS. Learn why I tackled this project and how it led to a faster, cleaner internet.
Learn how to build a professional, multi-stage DevSecOps pipeline for your portfolio site using GitHub Actions. This guide covers parallel security gates with Gitleaks and CodeQL, containerized Hugo builds, Lighthouse performance audits, and secretless OIDC deployments — no stored tokens.
Curious about running a powerful AI on your own machine? This post introduces my project guide for setting up the DeepSeek-R1 model locally using Docker for ultimate privacy and control.
A step-by-step guide to making your homelab self-maintaining. Learn to automate backups to Google Drive with rclone, manage container updates with Watchtower, and send proactive alerts to Discord using Prometheus and Alertmanager.
How I built a Python automation that reads Docker container logs, classifies severity, and sends critical events to a self-hosted DeepSeek-R1 model for natural-language summarization — with alerts delivered to Discord every 15 minutes.