I Tried This New Open Source Kubernetes Dashboard and It’s Surprisingly Good
I have been through a lot of the Kubernetes dashboards in my home lab and now that I am running my home lab “production” workloads on Kubernetes, I am keenly…
Category: Kubernetes
I Thought My Kubernetes Backups Worked in My Home Lab but I Was Wrong
This weekend I went down an absolute rabbit hole that I think most home labbers eventually hit when they start getting more and more into Kubernetes and that is backups.…
Why Ceph Won for Persistent Storage in My Talos Linux Kubernetes MiniLab
If you are deciding to run a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, Talos Linux Kubernetes makes a lot of sense, since it focuses on being immutable and security-focused. However, it forces you…
Why Talos Omni Kubernetes Has Changed My Home Lab
There are a lot of great ways to run Kubernetes in your home lab. I have covered many of these from running k3s to running a Minikube cluster on Ubuntu…
How to Install Talos Omni On-Prem for Effortless Kubernetes Management
Kubernetes is one of the most complex architectures and solutions in modern infrastructure. When it comes to K8s, we need to manage control planes, worker nodes, certificates, upgrades, and lifecycle…
Freelens is an Open Source and Free Kubernetes IDE for 2025!
I have been playing around with various Kubernetes IDE solutions for years now and there are many different ones that offer great solutions for working with Kubernetes to be honest.…
KubeSolo New Kubernetes Edge Distro by Portainer
When I saw Neil Cresswell’s (Portainer’s CEO) post on LinkedIn about a new Kubernetes distribution that was about to be released by Portainer, this got my attention. The new distro,…
Best Kubernetes Distributions for Home Lab Enthusiasts in 2025
Kubernetes is THE tool to learn for running containers. You can use it in the home lab, and certainly in production and cloud environments. If you are looking at getting…
Can You Run a Kubernetes Cluster on a Mini PC?
By in large, most are running home labs on mini PCs these days. They are just so powerful, cheap, and easy to come by from many different manufacturers, they have…
The Best Kubernetes Storage CSI Providers for Home Lab Enthusiasts
I have been experimenting and trying various Kubernetes Storage CSI providers over the past few months and I wanted to compile and give you a breakdown of my thoughts on…