I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point (based on the ago of Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi 2, this would be closer to 8+ years). My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I get what the author is talking about with losing trust in your services when they are unavailable. I have found that a Raspberry Pi 3/4 cluster running k3s utilizing NAS storage has very good uptime and honestly I think my internet service goes down more than my homelab services.

    • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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      7 months ago

      Thanks! I find most of the issues occur during upgrades to services, but that is to be expected.

      My internet service is usually more of an issue than most services I run. Though some things take longer to get tweaked and running well and that can cause issues.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        Upgrades to services - that’s why I run dev namespaces and copy over my production shares to dev and utilize zfs snapshotting.

        I haven’t set up testing yet and only just started with prometheus monitoring but so far things run pretty well.

          • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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            7 months ago

            I toyed with dev domain but ended up using namespace.tld and postfixing -dev to my namespace so it works out to service.tld and service-dev.tld.

              • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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                7 months ago

                I have automated traefik to route the traffic, it sets the dns and ingress route. I’m also doing as you suggested for service to service connections.

                • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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                  6 months ago

                  That makes sense!

                  Have you played with anything like Istio to secure in-cluster communications? I think Hashicorp Consul can do something similar to encrypt service to service communications.

                  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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                    6 months ago

                    I looked into it but I felt at the time it was too complex, maybe I’ll look at it again. Currently I am using wireguard for all cluster node-to-node traffic. It seemed like a reasonable tradeoff at the time, but it is at the network layer instead of application, so I really should revisit that at some point.