MikroTik VLANs are Six commands from the CLI
Replaced two daisy-chained 1G Netgear switches with a MikroTik CRS309 for 10G. The CLI made the entire VLAN setup six commands.
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A Year of Homelabbing
This is a year of building, breaking, and rebuilding my homelab.
Before the homelab
I never liked minikube. A potentially bold statement to make, but something about it felt too abstracted.
I remember installing it, running minikube addons enable ingress, and honestly feeling like something was off. What's
Closing the 100 Days
Hey folks, it's been a while since I've written anything here.
I started the 100 Days of Homelab challenge back in January 2025. Made it to Day 39, then stopped.
Now it's 2026 and I figured I should close this out properly before moving
Joining a non-Talos node to a Talos cluster (Day 39)
How to add non-Talos nodes to a Talos cluster with HAProxy for KubePrism compatibility.
Tailscale on Talos (Day 38)
Getting Tailscale running on Talos nodes.
Terraform Provider in Rust (Day 36-37)
From terragrunt hooks to a Rust Terraform provider to replace hacky workarounds for OIDC realm configuration in Proxmox.
Proxmox OIDC integration and terragrunt hooks (Day 36)
Turns out the Telmate Proxmox provider doesn't have resource support for creating authentication realms or configuring OIDC.
But since Proxmox has a REST API, I could work around the provider limitations, and so I ended up with:
terraform {
source = "."
after_hook "create_realm" {
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Authentik OAuth2 with Terraform (Day 35)
I recently started using Authentik to provide auth for my services and applications in the homelab.
Authentik is an open-source identity provider that supports OAuth2, SAML, and more, and comes with a Terraform provider, so naturally, I defaulted to managing everything that way.
This means I no longer need to
Talos extensions & Longhorn (Day 34)
I wanted to install Longhorn on my Talos cluster and found out how involved it can be, especially if you are not used to the whole immutable OS's.
Longhorn needs iscsi-tools and util-linux-tools . This is how I ended up installing them
Extensions
1. First create an extensions.yaml
VLAN Trunking and Proxmox Clusters (Day 33)
Following the post systemd-and-proxmox-day-3, I eventually declustered my Proxmox nodes. Now with the addition of a new MinisForum MS01, I did some rebuilding and went back to Proxmox clusters.
The current setup includes both PCs in a cluster, deliberately excluding the OPNsense Proxmox node, with the main advantage of clustering