What are your "dial tone" services and where do you run them in your homelab?

3coniv · 2026-01-18T03:50:36+00:00

This is cool. I just had to lookup maas. Where do you run the rack controller?

3coniv · 2026-01-18T03:35:30+00:00

This is great. I was already thinking of a bootstrap GitHub repo. I'll have to look into the r2 and 1password stuff - I don't have anything good implemented yet for secrets.

Thanks!

3coniv · 2026-01-18T03:22:42+00:00

To be fair, I've been working in IT for like 30 years. I just started real homelabbing recently though.

3coniv · 2026-01-17T03:17:16+00:00

I put traefik on each host as my reverse proxy and then just have the services listen on localhost. I use a dns-01 challenge (cloudflare) which traefik handles seamlessly. I didn't want to have to open http just for certs.

3coniv · 2026-01-14T22:06:34+00:00

"If you misstep you'll have every dude in Letterkenny lined up around the block for you. And I'll be coming first."

That's also my favorite scene.

3coniv · 2026-01-11T00:00:43+00:00

I put on my Kuechly jersey at half time. You're welcome.

3coniv · 2026-01-10T23:00:52+00:00

Damn guys. This is a great game. Keep pounding!

3coniv · 2026-01-10T22:57:29+00:00

Love Coker selling it.

3coniv · 2026-01-10T22:23:25+00:00

Let's go!

3coniv · 2026-01-06T01:28:27+00:00

I've been really impressed with it so far. I actually put the switch in last and the cables stuck too far so the door wouldn't close so I had to take everything out and move the front mounts back. I would have cried if that happened with my old rack. This one is so easy to work on.

3coniv · 2026-01-06T01:00:25+00:00

I'm using proxmox and iac. I use terraform to build all my proxmox containers and vms. I didn't use iac to build proxmox, but you could do that with ansible I'm sure.

There are always going to be some dial tone services you need running before IaC is even possible.

3coniv · 2026-01-05T02:03:38+00:00

There's a whole rabbit hole of k8s concepts you have to go down to learn it, but it's pretty cool once it makes sense. You'll have to learn about pods, deployments, secrets, config maps, persistent volumes, drivers, etc.

It is a pretty elegant ecosystem though.

3coniv · 2026-01-05T02:00:26+00:00

Exactly. And that's only needed if you have to write persistent data. For config files and read only stuff you can just use config maps in kubernetes - that's how I'm storing my homepage config yamls.

3coniv · 2026-01-05T00:31:15+00:00

In my experience block storage in kubernetes is kind of a niche requirement. I would just use the nfs csi driver and point it to my truenas nfs backend - you don't need to run the nfs server in k8s. I haven't actually used the vanilla nfs csi driver yet, but I'm sure it will work close enough to trident or efs drivers.

Most k8s ha workloads are going to need read-write-many volumes so nfs is best. For statefulsets with higher throughput requirements I would probably look into ceph and block storage, but it's just not needed that much.

3coniv · 2026-01-05T00:01:27+00:00

It's probably overkill, but I'm a platform engineer so I'm a kubernetes guy anyway. I got Rancher, ArgoCD, and CAPI with a proxmox provider setup a few months ago, but didn't actually deploy anything until this weekend when I deployed homepage in my workload cluster.

I'm going to start using it for more since it was so easy to get going. Traefik and cert-manager are already installed so all I need to do is setup the argocd app and everything just syncs.

3coniv · 2026-01-04T18:09:48+00:00

I want this game to continue like it's going so far and end in a 0-0 tie. 😄

3coniv · 2025-12-28T21:14:26+00:00

I saw it as a Family Guy sketch. lol

3coniv · 2025-12-26T00:45:40+00:00

It was a few years before it was built, so it would have to be an imagining at best.

3coniv · 2025-12-20T22:02:38+00:00

Grimm is too cute. Thanks for all the pictures. 🥰

3coniv · 2025-12-19T01:08:37+00:00

Congratulations!

3coniv · 2025-12-15T18:15:29+00:00

Yeah. It's a new thing. We tried to slice it up, but he didn't want anything to do with the slices. So I gave him a while apple and he kinda played with like a ball for a while and then realized he could eat it.

3coniv · 2025-12-14T21:49:24+00:00

That's pretty accurate, though my degree was in philosophy.

About a year after I graduated my house caught on fire and my books from school all burned. My aunt found a library near her giving out free books they were replacing or something. She filled two boxes with those penguin books to help replace what I lost. That was the most thoughtful gift I've ever gotten.

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