homelab-journey
Backup Validation: Restoring from Longhorn Backups
Testing the backup chain: etcd encryption with age, and a full Grafana PVC delete-and-restore to confirm Longhorn backups actually work.
Longhorn
Managing cloud-native distributed block storage for Kubernetes with Longhorn.
homelab-journey
Backup Infrastructure: Garage S3, ZFS, and Longhorn Backup Targets
Building the local backup layer for the Bletchley cluster: ZFS mirror on rock3's SATA SSDs, Garage S3, NFS, and Longhorn recurring backups.
Longhorn
Longhorn Deep Dive: Replicas, Versions, and Upgrades
The decisions behind the Longhorn installation: why 2 replicas on a 1Gb cluster, how version pinning protects reproducibility, and when to upgrade.
Longhorn
Setting Up Longhorn Storage on the Bletchley Cluster
Installing Longhorn distributed storage on a Talos Linux cluster: NVMe preparation, Helm install, and why the namespace label matters before anything else.