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Home Lab Revisited: Fully GitOps with Flux

My home lab cluster is now genuinely GitOps-driven with Flux. Here’s how the repo is laid out and what it’s like to live with.

September 25, 2026 · 7 min · Pete Wall
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Becoming a Golden Kubestronaut

How I earned all sixteen CNCF certifications to become a Golden Kubestronaut, and my honest take on each one along the way.

September 7, 2026 · 9 min · Pete Wall
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Banishing Ghosts

Why I retired my Ghost-on-Kubernetes blog in favor of a static Hugo site.

May 4, 2026 · 4 min · Pete Wall

Cattle Cluster

When my cluster went down and how I didn’t fix it.

September 9, 2022 · 3 min · Pete Wall

Continuous Thing-Doer

I describe the way that I’ve deployed Concourse to my cluster.

August 2, 2022 · 5 min · Pete Wall

Summoning Ghosts

Where I describe the process of deploying this blog software.

July 29, 2022 · 4 min · Pete Wall

Home Lab #6: Quick update about volumes

The continuing troubles with the SSD drives in my home lab machines.

July 27, 2022 · 2 min · Pete Wall

Home Lab Build - #5 Deploying the Platform

Installing the Kubernetes software platform on my home lab and some fixes along the way.

July 16, 2022 · 3 min · Pete Wall

Home Lab Build - #0 Current State

The history and current state of my home lab, and why it’s time to change it.

June 29, 2022 · 3 min · Pete Wall