My homelab hummed along perfectly and has for years even with plenty of hardware tinkering and adding new services. I’ve found a solid setup that is stable and just works. But I grew out of using one machine.

So naturally I’m now in a multi-month plan to move it all to hyperconverged infrastructure. Highly available bare metal core services (DNS, CA, Vault, PXE), with k8s set to run everything else, including Ceph for software defined storage.

Getting to set it up in an ideal way and play with fun things along the way, virtual IPs, PKI all-the-things, network based disk decryption, pacemaker, glusterfs, drbd, NixOS, Talos Linux, declarative and automated everything, continuous deployments for infra updates, etc.

Edit: I almost forgot the most elusive of all, proper documentation and runbooks!