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From Bootstrapped to Live: the Whole Platform (Series: Part 3)
Part 2 ended with six Talos VMs, an etcd quorum, and a kubeconfig — and nodes that were all stubbornly NotReady. That’s expected: Talos ships with cni.name: none, so the cluster has no pod networking until you give it some. This post is the rest of the journey — CNI, storage, secrets, certificates, ingress, monitoring,…
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Bootstrapping the Talos Control Plane (Series: Part 2)
Bootstrapping the Talos Control Plane (Series: Part 2) Part 1 made the case for Talos: an immutable, API-only node OS where every machine is described by a config file. This post is the how — turning six bare Talos VMs into a working, highly-available control plane, the way I actually bootstrapped mine. (Addresses below are…
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Why I Run Kubernetes on Talos, on Proxmox (Series: Part 1)
Why I Run Kubernetes on Talos, on Proxmox (Series: Part 1) I rebuilt my home Kubernetes cluster on Talos Linux running as VMs on Proxmox. This is the first post in a series documenting that stack — the why before the how. If you’re weighing how to run k8s in a lab, the OS choice…
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Fixing a Black PBS Console Behind Nginx Proxy Manager
Fixing a Black PBS Console Behind Nginx Proxy Manager The Proxmox Backup Server web UI has a built-in Shell — click it and you get a terminal in the browser, no SSH required. Except mine opened to a black rectangle. Cursor, no prompt, nothing. Here’s the five-minute version of a debug that could have been…
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When Your Backup Server Shares a Disk With the Thing It Backs Up
When Your Backup Server Shares a Disk With the Thing It Backs Up Backups feel done once the jobs are green. But “the jobs succeed” and “I can actually recover from a failure” are different claims, and the gap between them is usually a shared dependency you stopped seeing. Here’s one I found in my…