Talos

Part 4: Distributed Storage with Rook-Ceph

Building a Production-Grade Kubernetes Homelab - Part 4 of 8

Part 3: Cilium CNI - Advanced Networking and Load Balancing

Building a Production-Grade Kubernetes Homelab - Part 3 of 8

Longhorn → Ceph Migration Post-mortem: When Storage Systems Collide

"In production you don't rise to the level of your architecture... you fall to the level of your observability." My SigNoz dashboards went blood-red: Longhorn's instance-manager pods were thrashing in a tight restart loop, chewing through crash-backoff timers like popcorn. Within minutes I was

CNI Migration Post-mortem: Flannel to Cilium on Talos

While migrating from Flannel to Cilium on my Talos cluster, a configuration oversight caused 76 pods to fail during startup. This post documents the root cause and lessons learned about CNI behavior during node upgrades.