homelab-journey
Keeping the Bletchley Cluster Current: Talos, Kubernetes, and Every Helm Chart
Upgrading Talos, Kubernetes, and thirteen Helm charts with real workloads running — the safe order, the tools, and what went wrong. The how, not the what.
Talos Linux
Exploring Talos Linux: The secure, immutable, and API-managed OS designed for Kubernetes
homelab-journey
Cluster Observability Part 5: Hardware Health Collectors - ZFS, SMART, and Thermal
Adding ZFS, SMART, and thermal collectors to the Bletchley cluster — and three ARM64 image attempts before finding one that actually works.
homelab-journey
Reflection: 25 Posts and a Cluster I Can Stand Behind
74 days, 25 posts, one Kubernetes cluster. A look back at what got built, what's still to come, and what I learned doing it.
homelab-journey
Cluster Observability Part 1: Prometheus and Node Exporter on Talos
Installing Prometheus and node exporter on Talos Linux: namespace labelling, values files, the duplicate pod gotcha, and confirming all four nodes are being scraped.
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.
Talos Linux
Upgrading Talos Linux Nodes: Adding a Missing Extension
How I discovered a missing system extension before it caused problems, and upgraded all four Bletchley cluster nodes in 15 minutes. Plus: what changes when you have running workloads.
TuringPi
Building the Bletchley Cluster: Installing Talos Linux on TuringPi 2
Complete guide to installing Talos Linux v1.12.4 on TuringPi 2 RK1 modules — VLAN configuration, HA control plane, and every command along the way.