https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/Recent content in Posts on zolty.systemsHugoen-usSun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-05-goss-container-smoke-testing/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-05-goss-container-smoke-testing/How to write layered Goss specs that assert your .env values actually resolve to working MySQL credentials — not just that the vars exist.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-02-openclaw-vs-claude-code-architecture/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-02-openclaw-vs-claude-code-architecture/I compared OpenClaw's open-source architecture against the leaked Claude Code source. Same problem space, fundamentally different designs. Here is what I found.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-02-openclaw-self-hosted-gpu-guide/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-04-02-openclaw-self-hosted-gpu-guide/A complete guide to running your own private AI assistant on Windows with Docker Desktop, Ollama, and OpenClaw. Includes model recommendations for 24GB VRAM GPUs and a full VRAM reference table.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-30-aws-lens-web-mode/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-30-aws-lens-web-mode/AWS Lens was built as an Electron desktop app. I adapted it into a containerized Express server running on k3s — no desktop required, accessible from any browser on the internal network. Here's what that involved.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-29-week-retrospective/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-29-week-retrospective/A week of CVE patches, OpenClaw stabilization, Wiki.js fork shipping, PiKey, a self-hosted Actions cache, and a Reddit comment thread that made me document everything properly.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-29-wikijs-fork-mermaid-upgrade/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-29-wikijs-fork-mermaid-upgrade/Wiki.js ships Mermaid 8.8.2 from 2020. Upstream defers the upgrade to v3 with no release date. I forked it, upgraded to Mermaid 11.13.0, patched 8 CVEs, and cut Criticals from 8 to 3 — without touching Vue 2 or Webpack 4.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-28-securing-jellyfin-on-the-internet/Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-28-securing-jellyfin-on-the-internet/Fail2ban, OAuth SSO, IP block lists, DDNS whitelisting, and why a VPN is the easiest answer to the whole problem.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-self-hosted-github-actions-cache/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-self-hosted-github-actions-cache/GitHub Actions cache hits are slow when your runners are local. I deployed a self-hosted cache server backed by NAS NFS storage, flushed the GitHub-hosted caches, and cut cache restore times from minutes to seconds.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-k3s-stability-improvements/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-k3s-stability-improvements/A rundown of the stability improvements I have made to my k3s homelab cluster over the past two months -- Harbor migration, Grafana SQLite fix, security patches, networking hardening, pve4 recovery, and CI/CD reliability.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-vpn-tech-collective/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-vpn-tech-collective/Designing a WireGuard hub-and-spoke VPN mesh to connect a tech collective -- shared Jellyfin, CI/CD runners, game servers, and centralized monitoring across multiple sites with privacy-first logging.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-authentik-identity-platform/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-authentik-identity-platform/Why I am replacing OAuth2 Proxy with Authentik for SSO across 20+ services -- Google federation, group-based RBAC, Traefik forwardAuth integration, and a phased migration plan that does not break anything.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-jellyfin-hw-stress-tester/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-jellyfin-hw-stress-tester/How I built a headless GPU transcoding stress tester for Jellyfin on Kubernetes -- escalating concurrent streams against Intel UHD 630 VAAPI, JSON reports, and a k3s Job manifest that auto-cleans after 10 minutes.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-pikey-bluetooth-keyboard-emulator/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-27-pikey-bluetooth-keyboard-emulator/How I built PiKey -- a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W that spoofs a Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard, jiggles the mouse, and auto-types LLM-generated text to simulate human activity. Three implementations: Python, Rust, and C.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-26-blog-cicd-on-k3s/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-26-blog-cicd-on-k3s/How the blog deploys itself using self-hosted GitHub Actions runners inside the k3s cluster — scheduled posts, Bedrock content generation, and Playwright scanning after every push.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-25-openclaw-multi-user/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-25-openclaw-multi-user/Adding multi-user support with privacy guarantees, dual model providers (Anthropic direct API and AWS Bedrock via LiteLLM), and per-user cost tracking to OpenClaw on k3s.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-24-linkerd-service-mesh/Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0500https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-24-linkerd-service-mesh/A deep dive into Linkerd, what a service mesh does, its latest features like post-quantum cryptography, and why a 20-workload homelab doesn't need one yet.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-23-openclaw-on-k3s/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-23-openclaw-on-k3s/How I replaced Open WebUI with OpenClaw -- a Node.js AI assistant gateway that is lighter, supports multiple channels, and deploys cleanly on Kubernetes with a custom Docker image.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-operation-moonshot-linux-in-rust/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-operation-moonshot-linux-in-rust/A thought experiment taken too far: what would it actually take to have Claude rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust, module by module? I scoped the project, estimated the tokens, hit the walls, and learned something useful about AI-assisted systems programming along the way.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-claude-regulatory-compliance/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-claude-regulatory-compliance/Regulatory compliance feels like a wall until you start climbing it. Here is how I used Claude to map requirements, identify gaps, generate policy drafts, and build an actionable plan -- without hiring a consultant on day one.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-ai-pair-programming-five-projects/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-ai-pair-programming-five-projects/A day working across five repositories with Claude as a pair programmer -- stock automation (13K LOC), Harbor registry migration, digital signage auth, cardboard sell signals, and OpenClaw cost optimization. What worked, what broke, and the real throughput numbers.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-cardboard-price-tracker/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-cardboard-price-tracker/How I built Cardboard -- a trading card game price tracker that monitors 10 TCGs across TCGPlayer and eBay using a three-tier scraping strategy, runs on k3s, and displays historical price data on a Chart.js dashboard.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-digital-signage-ha-proxy/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-digital-signage-ha-proxy/Why I stopped using separate weather and calendar APIs and built an HA proxy that turns Home Assistant into the single data source for every digital signage widget -- plus API key auth, graceful degradation, and the CI/CD fixes that made it all deployable.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-claude-code-vs-copilot/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-22-claude-code-vs-copilot/After a year with GitHub Copilot, I switched to Claude Code Max for homelab infrastructure work. The difference is not autocomplete -- it is agency. Here is what changed, what I miss, and the real cost math.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-harbor-registry-ditching-ecr/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-harbor-registry-ditching-ecr/Migrating 13 CI workflows from AWS ECR to self-hosted Harbor and Gitea -- eliminating 12-hour token expiry, Docker Hub rate limits, and per-image AWS costs. The full migration playbook with Ansible, Helm, NFS storage, and promotion workflows.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-one-month-retrospective/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-one-month-retrospective/A month-by-month timeline of building a production-grade homelab Kubernetes cluster -- from three bare Proxmox hosts to 8 nodes running 15+ applications with full observability, AI-powered operations, and 10GbE networking.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-stock-automation-zero-to-platform/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-21-stock-automation-zero-to-platform/Building a complete swing trading research platform in one session -- 5 phases, 13K lines of Python, 199 tests, paper trading, and a Rich terminal dashboard. What worked, what didn't, and why local-first beats SaaS for personal investing tools.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-20-petg-filament-settings/Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-20-petg-filament-settings/Dialing in PETG settings on the Bambu Lab P1S -- running 265C nozzle and 80C bed instead of the advertised 230-250C, why first layer temps matter, and how Amazon delivered 4KG of filament just before I ran out.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-19-bambu-lab-p1s-3d-printing/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-19-bambu-lab-p1s-3d-printing/Adding a Bambu Lab P1S to the homelab toolkit -- printing custom enclosures, cable brackets, rack mounts, and ventilated cases for cluster nodes with minimal setup and impressive quality.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/jellyfin-ha-kubernetes/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/jellyfin-ha-kubernetes/How I added high-availability transcoding to Jellyfin with a Redis-backed session store, lease-based pod takeover, and shared NFS storage on k3s.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-12-jellyfin-ha-whats-broken/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-12-jellyfin-ha-whats-broken/An honest look at what the Jellyfin HA conversion didn't solve — transcoding limits, SyncPlay, fork rebase burden, and the road to Track B.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-11-jellyfin-ha-failover-testing/Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-11-jellyfin-ha-failover-testing/Setting replicas to 2, running six failover scenarios, and measuring what actually happens when you kill a Jellyfin pod mid-stream on k3s.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-10-jellyfin-ha-state-sessions/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-10-jellyfin-ha-state-sessions/Eleven ConcurrentDictionaries hold Jellyfin's runtime state in memory. Here's what we externalized, what we deferred, and why sticky sessions won.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-09-jellyfin-ha-storage-migration/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-09-jellyfin-ha-storage-migration/Deploying PostgreSQL on k3s, restructuring Jellyfin's volumes from monolithic PVC to NFS + Longhorn, and migrating years of media metadata without losing playback history.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-08-jellyfin-ha-postgresql-provider/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-08-jellyfin-ha-postgresql-provider/Building a pluggable PostgreSQL database provider for Jellyfin using EF Core and Npgsql. The deepest code change in the HA project — and where AI agents needed the most correction.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-07-jellyfin-ha-multi-model-planning/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-07-jellyfin-ha-multi-model-planning/Four AI models reviewed the Jellyfin HA plan before any code was written. Here's what each model caught that the others missed, and how the pattern works.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-06-jellyfin-ha-why-it-cant-scale/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-06-jellyfin-ha-why-it-cant-scale/Jellyfin was built for a single process on a single machine. Here's every architectural reason it can't run two pods — and the four-phase plan to fix it.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-04-ai-driven-incident-response/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-04-ai-driven-incident-response/A complete incident report of a multi-failure Kubernetes debugging session: Longhorn self-healing, stale Jobs, an expired ECR secret, and three nested Python bugs that all had to fall in order before dnd-backend could start.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-04-private-ai-chat/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-04-private-ai-chat/Deploying a private ChatGPT alternative on a homelab k3s cluster using Open WebUI, LiteLLM proxy, and four AWS Bedrock models -- with OAuth2 for access control.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-03-governing-ai-coding-tools/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-03-governing-ai-coding-tools/AI coding tools have gone from curiosity to default for most developers. Here's a governance framework that actually works without killing productivity.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-ai-failure-patterns/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-ai-failure-patterns/A catalog of AI-caused production incidents in a homelab Kubernetes cluster, the guardrail architecture built to prevent them, and an honest assessment of what still goes wrong.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-llm-github-pr-workflow/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-llm-github-pr-workflow/How I shipped a 109-day project in 8 hours: multi-model planning with ChatGPT, Gemini, GPT Codex, and Claude Opus, then Claude Sonnet 4.6 implementing overnight via GitHub Copilot agent PRs.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-dnd-multi-ai-dungeon-master/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-02-dnd-multi-ai-dungeon-master/How I built a multiplayer D&D platform with an AI Dungeon Master powered by AWS Bedrock, a 5-tier lore memory system, and a Dwarf Fortress-style world simulation engine.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-01-environment-manifests-for-ai/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-01-environment-manifests-for-ai/How I stopped AI assistants from suggesting wrong tool versions and builds by adding a single environment instructions file to every repository.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-01-github-copilot-setup-guide/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-03-01-github-copilot-setup-guide/A $20/month Copilot sub is the best AI tooling investment right now. Here's how to set it up so it actually knows your projects -- instructions, skills, memory, and model selection.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-26-ai-memory-system/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-26-ai-memory-system/How the AI instruction system evolved from a 10-line file to a multi-layered architecture of copilot-instructions, path-scoped rules, and a living failure database -- and why every production incident makes the AI smarter.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-25-monitoring-outage-longhorn-wal-corruption/Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-25-monitoring-outage-longhorn-wal-corruption/How a new cluster node triggered Longhorn replica I/O errors that silently corrupted Prometheus WAL and Loki TSDB files, leaving Grafana showing No data for 26 hours.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-24-internal-wiki-autodocumentation/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-24-internal-wiki-autodocumentation/Why I self-hosted Wiki.js as the primary knowledge layer for the cluster, how the AI assistant writes to it after completing work, and how it became the most useful thing I built.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-23-ai-context-window-audit/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-23-ai-context-window-audit/A multi-repo AI skill audit found 401KB of duplicated content consuming 100K tokens. Here's how I measured, diagnosed, and fixed context window bloat.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-k3s-upgrade-v129-to-v134/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-k3s-upgrade-v129-to-v134/Rolling k3s upgrade from v1.29.0 to v1.34.4 across 8 nodes with interleaved Longhorn upgrades, broken SSH, and unexpected Traefik pinning.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-ai-assisted-infrastructure/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-ai-assisted-infrastructure/How I use Claude Opus 4.6, GitHub Copilot, and AWS Bedrock to build and operate a production homelab cluster -- and why AI without memory is a liability.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-cluster-benchmarks/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-22-cluster-benchmarks/Full hardware benchmark results for four Lenovo M920q Proxmox hosts — NVMe SMART health, fio disk IOPS, sysbench CPU and memory bandwidth, iperf3 10GbE throughput, and the dramatic thermal impact of custom 3D-printed cooling.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-21-jellyseerr-ai-media-requests/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-21-jellyseerr-ai-media-requests/Connecting Jellyseerr's API to Claude so I can say 'download 100GB of family-friendly anime that I might like' and have the cluster handle the rest — including scheduled runs that queue content automatically.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-20-10gbe-networking/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-20-10gbe-networking/Upgrading the homelab to 10GbE with used Mellanox ConnectX-3 NICs — including the firmware flash that bricked a NIC and the cold boot recovery procedure.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-19-monitoring-everything/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-19-monitoring-everything/A comprehensive look at the monitoring stack powering the homelab: kube-prometheus-stack for metrics, Loki for logs, custom dashboards, alert tuning, and the performance benchmarks I ran to validate the platform.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-18-gpu-passthrough/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-18-gpu-passthrough/A complete guide to passing through Intel UHD 630 iGPU from Proxmox to a k3s VM for Jellyfin hardware transcoding — IOMMU, VFIO, VA-API, and all the troubleshooting.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-17-media-stack/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:30:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-17-media-stack/Deploying Jellyfin with GPU transcoding, the *arr suite, automated seedbox sync with rclone, and NFS storage — a complete self-hosted media pipeline on k3s.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-16-vlan-migration/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-16-vlan-migration/How I migrated all k3s nodes, MetalLB pool, and load balancer IPs from a flat network to a dedicated Server VLAN — and the etcd recovery procedure I needed when things went wrong.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-15-top-10-production-failures/Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:30:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-15-top-10-production-failures/One week into running a homelab k3s cluster in production, here are the top 10 failures I have encountered and the lessons each one taught me about Kubernetes operations.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-14-ai-powered-alerts/Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-14-ai-powered-alerts/How I built an AI alert responder that analyzes Prometheus alerts using AWS Bedrock and suggests remediation actions directly in Slack, plus multi-user dev workspaces on k3s.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-13-microservices-on-k3s/Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-13-microservices-on-k3s/Lessons from deploying a Vue.js frontend with 7 FastAPI backend services, NATS messaging, PostgreSQL, and Redis on a homelab k3s cluster.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-12-self-hosted-cicd/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-12-self-hosted-cicd/A deep dive into GitHub Actions Runner Controller (ARC) on k3s — from initial setup to scaling, RBAC configuration, and all the gotchas I hit along the way.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-11-digital-signage-on-k3s/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-11-digital-signage-on-k3s/Taking an Angular SPA and 7 Flask microservices from local development to Kubernetes — covering MQTT brokers, multi-service deployments, and the joys of container networking.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-10-home-assistant-and-watchdog/Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:30:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-10-home-assistant-and-watchdog/Deploying Home Assistant on k3s with hostNetwork and split routing, plus building an automated Proxmox watchdog that power-cycles unresponsive hosts via smart plugs.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-09-first-applications/Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-09-first-applications/Day two of the cluster build: deploying Cardboard (TCG price tracker), Trade Bot (automated trading), a cluster dashboard, monitoring with Prometheus, and dev workspaces — all in one marathon session.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-08-cluster-genesis/Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-08-cluster-genesis/From bare Proxmox hosts to a fully operational k3s HA cluster in a single day, using Terraform for VM provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-07-choosing-the-hardware/Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:00:00 -0600https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/2026-02-07-choosing-the-hardware/How I chose the Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q as the foundation for a production-grade k3s homelab cluster, and why tiny form factor PCs are the best kept secret in homelabbing.https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/welcome-to-zolty-systems/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.zolty.systems/posts/welcome-to-zolty-systems/Introducing zolty.systems -- a blog about homelab infrastructure, Kubernetes, and the lessons learned from running production workloads at home.