Who is zolty?
I’m a systems engineer and homelab enthusiast who builds and maintains a production-grade Kubernetes cluster at home. This blog documents the journey – the wins, the failures, and everything in between.
What is this blog about?
This blog covers:
- Homelab Infrastructure – Building and maintaining a multi-node k3s cluster on Proxmox VE
- Kubernetes Deep Dives – Traefik, cert-manager, Longhorn, MetalLB, and more
- DevOps & Automation – CI/CD with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, Terraform, Ansible
- Monitoring & Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom alerting pipelines
- Lessons Learned – Post-mortems and gotchas from running production workloads at home
The Stack
The infrastructure behind this blog and the projects discussed here runs on:
- 3x Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q mini PCs running Proxmox VE
- K3s (lightweight Kubernetes) in HA configuration with embedded etcd
- Longhorn for distributed block storage
- Traefik for ingress with automated TLS via Let’s Encrypt
- GitHub Actions with self-hosted runners for CI/CD
- Prometheus + Grafana + Loki for full-stack observability
Get in Touch
Find me on GitHub or follow the blog via RSS.
Affiliate Links
Some links on this site (particularly on the Gear page and in hardware-related posts) are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I only link to products I personally use in my homelab. See the full disclosure in the site footer.
