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Private Kubernetes Access with Tailscale

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:13:26 +0000

Tailscale turns private Kubernetes access from a network headache into a one-command solution.

Finding the Perfect Stream: My Homelab Media Server Journey

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:22:20 +0000

Talk About My Media Server

Tearing Down My Homelab and Starting Over

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:08:04 +0000

Recently, I decided to tear down my existing homelab and start from scratch. Until now, it was just an old desktop running Debian — a…

Automate AWS Route53 records for Kubernetes Ingress using External DNS

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:04:52 +0000

While exposing your application by Kubernetes Ingress with a load balancer, managing DNS records could be a headache because of the dynamic…

What, Why, How to do continuous monitoring?

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:44:36 +0000

Introduction

In many discussions, automated deployments or CI/CD pipelines may be the most popular in all those common DevOps duties. Some even say it is the only important thing or value DevOps provides. However, DevOps is much more than just doing deployment or automating stuff. Coding and deployment are undeniably important in a software development lifecycle, but post-deployment is also part of the keys to a successful solution: monitoring.

Why do we need Helm?

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 21:22:22 +0000

Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes. In many reviews, it is the best package manager to deploy and manage applications on any Kubernetes…

My top 3 CNCF projects in DevOps

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:28:07 +0000

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) is a non-profit organization that aims to promote the adoption of cloud-native computing…

[2/2]Automate Terraform and Ansible execution by GitHub Actions

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:35:09 +0000

Last week, I have showcased creating a Nginx web server and exposing it to public by combination of Terraform and Ansibe. It is a common…

[1/2]Provision EC2 web server by Terraform and Ansible

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:12:48 +0000

Terraform and Ansible are powerful tools on managing your cloud infrastructure. They can provision the resources and install necessary…

Managed Terraform state with CI/CD pipeline by GitLab CI

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:32:16 +0000

GitLab is a powerful tool that allows you to manage different stages of DevOps tasks in a single platform, including the management of your…

Provision EKS Cluster with ArgoCD by Terraform

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:22:15 +0000

In previous stories, I have shown you how to control application deployment on Kubernetes by ArgoCD. You can check my profile if you are…

[2/2] Manage cloudflared with GitOps solution

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:02:46 +0000

In the previous article, I showed you how to expose your Kubernetes Service to Internet through Cloudflare Tunnel. I have also mentioned…

[1/2]How to expose your local Kubernetes Services through Cloudflare Tunnel without Ingress

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:10:17 +0000

As a Homelabber, it could be challenging on exposing the apps hosted on your local Kubernetes cluster. For example, you may need to deal…

How to deploy Helm Chart when Values in private Git repository by ArgoCD

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:22:55 +0000

This project will show you how to deploy Jenkins server from official Helm repository on a K3S cluster with a custom values.yaml from a…