Speedtest tracking my network
I like to know what speed i’m getting from my ISP. I found a nifty docker container to do that. The web site also provides instructions for k8s deployment.
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This section holds the Homelabbing articles
This section has articles about my efforts and musing on homelabbing. It is unabashedly technical.
I cover areas such as deploying tools and applications, how I host my own instance of n8n and (soon) many other aspects of setting up, running and managing (with a bit of monitoring) my home lab.
I use my home lab for my own purposes (such as hosting my own n8n in which I run my automations), mainly for learning new products and technologies, but also for (what I consider to be) fun.
Proxmox and CloudInit
I wanted to build a few VMs for my k8s cluster - a master node which would hold the k8s control plane, and a few worker nodes.
I didn’t fancy building 4 VMs for my k8s cluster by manually installing the O/S (Ubuntu 24.04) from the ISO and going through the installation GUI when faster and more reliable methods were available. Enter CloudInit.
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