Bare-Metal on Beyond The Cert

I Moved My Homelab Across Town and Let Tailscale Handle the Network

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What happens when you move five Kubernetes nodes and a NAS to a new apartment, and the one thing that breaks isn't what you expect.

From 10 Days to 30 Minutes: Why I Automated My Bare Metal Kubernetes Cluster

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When people ask me what made me decide to automate my homelab cluster, they expect a story about frustration — some late night where everything broke and I snapped. That’s not what happened.

The first time I built a bare metal Kubernetes cluster manually, it took me a week and countless hours. Manual steps, configuration files, troubleshooting, and learning. And when it was done, I looked at it and thought: the next evolution of this is automation. Not because I was tired of doing it manually — but because I wanted to be able to reproduce it at a moment’s notice.

One Unplugged Cable. Two Hours of Debugging. Here's What Broke My Bare Metal Kubernetes Cluster.

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I unplugged a router to add a power strip. My Kubernetes cluster went down. Here's what broke, how I fixed it, and what I'd do differently.

Calico and Tailscale Have a BGP Conflict. Here's Exactly What Breaks and How to Fix It.

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Running Calico and Tailscale together on bare metal Kubernetes? There's a BGP conflict nobody warns you about. Here's what breaks and the two-step fix.

Project Genesis1: I Built a 4-Node Kubernetes Cluster on Bare Metal. Here's What I Learned.

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I built a 4-node bare metal Kubernetes cluster from scratch. Two control planes, two workers, full GitOps pipeline. Here's what broke and what I learned.