Making my homelab Kubernetes rack-aware
2026-05-18
So I can take a whole rackmount offline for maintenance, any afternoon, without downtime.
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Host Coder to run your AI Orchestrator
2026-04-12
A Gitea issue goes in, a reviewed pull request comes out — Claude Code agents running the whole SDLC in ephemeral Coder workspaces on my own cluster.
Fancy A Cup of Gitea anyone?
2026-04-11
Hosting your own GitHub might be the way to go!
Zero-downtime deploys with blue-green on Kubernetes
2026-03-24
RollingUpdate is fine until you want to test before you switch.
Laravel Horizon and the maxProcesses trap
2026-03-23
Switching from raw queue workers to Horizon, and the memory bill that followed.
From MariaDB Galera to CloudNativePG
2026-03-22
Why I migrated my HA database from a Galera cluster to Postgres.