Homelab adventures, self-hosting guides and tech experiments
My Homelab Journey
How It Started I decided to build a self-hosted homelab cluster using a Turing Pi 2 board with 4x RK1 compute modules. The goal was to learn Kubernetes and run my own services without relying on cloud providers. The Hardware Board: Turing Pi 2 Compute: 4x RK1 modules (8-core ARM, 8GB RAM each) Storage: 4x 465GB NVMe drives NAS: QNAP for media storage The Software Stack K3s — Lightweight Kubernetes Longhorn — Distributed storage Traefik — Ingress controller Cert-Manager — Automatic SSL Grafana + Prometheus — Monitoring Jellyfin — Media server ArgoCD — GitOps deployments What I Learned Building this cluster taught me a lot about Kubernetes networking, storage, and GitOps workflows. More posts to come! ...