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Unlocking Possibilities: A Journey of Customizing Home Security with Home Assistant

As an IoT enthusiast and a professional in the field, I’ve always been intrigued by the potential of smart home technology. One area that has particularly piqued my interest is home security. Over the years, I’ve added several cameras around my house, creating a robust surveillance system. However, one piece of the puzzle always seemed…
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Adding worker nodes to k3s
At this point, to further our experiments and to better understand how k3s operates, we need to add some more nodes. To start off here, we are not yet going to add any more master nodes for HA. Instead, we’re just going to add some worker nodes so we can see the difference in how…
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A simpler single node k3s cluster
Last time, we covered what was basically a full k3s install, complete with load-balancing and ingress control, plus rancher. The reality is, you really don’t need all this on a single node. What good is load balancing if you only have one node? So let’s look at a slightly modified k3s install. First, let’s uninstall…
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Kubernetes on Proxmox
For the moment, I only have one server running. After setting proxmox up, I set up a single local zfs store on 1 disk. I am not too worried about creating a ceph cluster at the moment, because while ceph is great for HA and replication on many clusters, it is awful for storage capacity.…
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My thoughts on the UDM Pro
An aside for later, growing disappointed in my choice of Ubiquity gear: I used to love Ubiquity and the gear they produced. It always seemed to be enterprise grade hardware with consumer friendly interfaces and prices. Unifi used to give you so much more power in how you configured your network and exposed much more…