Random thoughts from Mauricio Teixeira...
At some point I decided I wanted to get into the 10 home lab rack bandwagon. Not that I really needed, but I saw so many cool ideas that made me want to have a little bit of eye candy for myself. This blog post is a little bit about what I had, my thought [ ]
I heavily use Visual Studio Code both professionally and for my personal projects. For a long time I have been using Dev Containers, and since recently I started using Multi-root Workspaces. Even more recently I decided to figure out a way to use both at the same time, but it was really hard to find [ ]
I m planning to downsize, so I guess this is as good time as any to document the current state of my home lab. I suppose the diagram below is self-explanatory, and I don t want to give much details about what I am running. The point of this diagram is just to demonstrate the wide mix [ ]
A while ago I had issues with enabling secure boot with Talos Linux on a Framework Desktop, so I posted a blog about it. Then, after a while, I had similar problems with the Lenovo M720Q Tiny, so I blogged about it as well. Today I wanted to spin up a small control-plane-only node on [ ]
A couple of weeks ago I acquired 3 x Lenovo M720Q Tiny, which I wanted to add as extra nodes to my home lab Talos Linux Kubernetes cluster. They also has UEFI secure boot problems, just like my Framework Desktop had a couple of months ago. So I decided to write this post to help [ ]
For about two months I ve been running ollama and llama.cpp on a Talos Linux Kubernetes cluster, on top of a desktop PC with the AMD Strix Halo CPU (AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395). This blog post is to show you how to install it, and talk about some of my frustrations along the way. Introduction [ ]
I ve been following Michael Meier s saga on Mastodon, where he s trying to figure out how to properly monitor his Kubernetes certificates. In the end he came up with some clever ideas in a blog post. So I decided to look at what can I do for my situation, and then I learned that things in [ ]
I recently received my Framework Desktop, and I wanted to install Talos Linux on it. My first attempt at booting with the USB drive was a total failure. In this blog post I will show you how I managed to get it temporarily working, and what is the final/definitive solution to get Talos Linux installed [ ]
In this post I will demonstrate how I configured Renovate to run on my self-hosted Forgejo runners, so I can automatically track updates on my home lab applications. A lot of the quirks with the runner configuration have been explained in a previous blog post, where I have gone through the full runner setup. A [ ]
In this post I will show you how to configure a very simple service called smtp-pushover, which does nothing more than simply convert an email message into a notification to be sent to your phone via Pushover. I am using this mostly to send pull requests notifications from my self-hosted Forgejo instance. Introduction For a [ ]