https://blog.khzaw.dev/tags/talos/Recent content in Talos on khzHugoen-usFri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://blog.khzaw.dev/posts/rangoonpulse-homelab-origin/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://blog.khzaw.dev/posts/rangoonpulse-homelab-origin/<p>I have self-hosted things before, but none of it really stuck. A <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/">Raspberry Pi 4</a> ran <a href="https://pi-hole.net/">Pi-hole</a> for a while, then an old laptop ran <a href="https://www.plex.tv/">Plex</a> for a while after that. Both were useful in the loose way side projects are useful. Every now and then, something would break, I would usually shrug, things fizzle out and I would just move on.</p> <p>This time round, I wanted to start something more serious. Something small, but with plenty of room to grow in whatever direction I felt like taking it, a testing ground for all sorts of learning experiments. I&rsquo;d also GitOps it, so if I added a service, changed storage, or touched DNS, I wanted that change to live somewhere more durable than a vague memory of what I typed into a terminal. Nothing fancy, no rack, no enterprise gear. Just a small cluster for the services I actually use, with enough <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a> underneath it for me to learn something while running it.</p>