I'm a silly dog| arch.dog
I've been running Gentoo as my desktop's main operating system for about a year now, so I consider myself something of an expert. At least, I have enough experience to have an informed opinion on the distro, and it's pretty mixed. I'll start by saying I moved from NixOS to Gentoo, pretty much swinging from two ends of the spectrum when it comes to Linux distribution management strategies. On one end you have your entire setup from installed packages to those packages' configurations defined i...| arch.dog
I'm always bothered by single points of failure. For my homelab, this quickly became a single HAProxy virtual machine. It existed on only one of my Proxmox instances (I can't replicate between them because the original instance doesn't use zfs. oops) so if the virtual machine or physical machine was unreachable for whatever reason, it effectively blocked my access to any service in my homelab Kubernetes cluster, and also broke communication between nodes and the Kubernetes API. It didn't happ...| arch.dog
Hell, where do I even start? My last "full" infrastructure update post was at the end of 2023, and we're now a third of the way through 2025. In that time, I've been doing a lot of tinkering and refining of my personal infrastructure, to the point I've very much lost track of what's changed besides the commits to my infra repository and posts to this very blog.| arch.dog