Posts for: {homelab}

My homelab's first real outage, and why the fix took 5 minutes

Postmortem of the 2026-10-22 homelab incident: bad sectors on the USB hard drive behind worker-node2's Longhorn disk froze the node, and the disk was swapped for an SSD the same night.

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Shleemypants gets a pager: reactive Suricata triage in the homelab

Putting my homelab SRE agent on call: a Suricata alert on the router wakes it, and it investigates on its own.

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AI SRE: giving my homelab an SRE with an attitude problem

Building an autonomous, guardrailed SRE agent for my homelab: a disposable cloud-init VM, Hermes/MCP tooling, Proxmox and GitLab token privilege separation, and the CI/CD pipeline that ships it.

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One-click homelab: integrating Gitlab, Proxmox and K8s with GitOps Principles

A comprehensive guide to setting up a homelab using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Gitlab, Proxmox, and Kubernetes for seamless one-click deployments.

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