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Metrics Server on Talos: The Reboot That Broke Garage
Empty Longhorn panels led to metrics-server, a Talos cert quirk, a reboot that broke Garage, and 16 silent hours of failed backups.
Talos
Technical guides and updates focused on the Talos ecosystem and machine configuration.
homelab-journey
Enabling fstrim on Longhorn Volumes in Talos Linux
Longhorn allocation never coming down? Here's how to enable automated fstrim via a RecurringJob on Talos Linux — and what it can't fix.
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The Backup That Wasn't: Eight Days, Five Root Causes
A stale Grafana metric, eight days of silent failure, and five root causes that each made sense in isolation. How a backup stopped without anyone noticing.
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Longhorn Storage Upgrade: Replacing 500GB NVMe with 1TB
Rolling NVMe upgrade on a live Talos cluster: phase=failed, the extraMounts unlock sequence, and why storageReserved needs an explicit value.
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Growing the Cluster: Adding rock5, rock6, and rock7 to Bletchley
Three new RK1 worker nodes, three different Longhorn disk problems. The right way to add a node — and what happened when I didn't follow it.
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Cluster Observability Part 8: Talos System Logs
Talos system logs via Vector: why loki.source.tcp doesn't exist, how Vector fills the gap, and fixing Alloy's node-local filter in the same pass.
Talos
Installing Talos Linux on TuringPi RK1: Learning from My First Attempt
Documentation isn't optional. How I lost access to my working Talos cluster and why I'm reinstalling from scratch with proper documentation.