Technical articles on homelab, Kubernetes, home automation, and more
I bought a new Steam controller and wanted to try it. I used it with Ship of Harkinian on Linux, launched it via Steam, and noticed gyro wasn’t detected. Below is how I got native gyro working for SoH. Like any program, launching through Steam grants you the full …
During some disaster recovery work, I deployed a Proxmox cluster to rapidly restore VMs from Veeam but ran into a restore target issue. Veeam’s Proxmox plugin can back up VMs running on local-zfs just fine. Restoring them is the problem: Veeam won’t use a ZFS pool as …
Context I ran into an unusual OSLogin failure while migrating a long-running server into a new GCP project. The request was to migrate from one old GCP project into multiple new ones, one per environment. This included several VMs with dev and prod versions.
On July 3rd, 2024, I ended up dealing with one of the messier Kubernetes situations I’ve encountered: upgrading an EKS cluster that had effectively been left behind for years. The push to upgrade wasn’t optional as the cluster version was approaching the end of extended support …
Door alarms have gotten more sophisticated over the years, but many newer systems are proprietary or comparatively expensive, especially when using Zigbee or similar ecosystems. The older 433 MHz sensors are cheap, simple, and widely available. Most of them use fixed-code …
Using KeepassXC with Terraform A personal Vault instance or paying for AWS secrets manager is overkill for personal projects, especially ones with local or mixed environment setups. A local encrypted file, like a .enc Ansible can use, is annoying to edit. KeepassXC offers a GUI, …
I purchased three mini computers on Black Friday to use for K3S learning and self hosting. Naturally, I want to access the cluster from the internet but there are some issues. The house only has copper run to it so the only internet options are cellular and Starlink. In both …
If you want to deploy with Terraform, look here. I purchased three mini computers on Black Friday to use for K3S learning and self hosting. Naturaly, I want to access the cluster from the internet but there are some issues. The house only has copper run to it so the only internet …
This post originally published on github. This ESPHome configuration has been tested with an older ~2017 Haiku fan using an IR blaster board using an ESP8285. The ESP8285 IR boad was purchased from Aliexpress. This is the remote used to record the IR commands. It may work with …
Terraform is a powerful infrastructure-as-code tool that allows you to define and manage your cloud resources. While Terraform provides built-in support for various cloud providers, importing existing resources into Terraform can sometimes be a challenge. This article will guide …
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