I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point (based on the ago of Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi 2, this would be closer to 8+ years). My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to

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  • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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    6 months ago

    Thanks! I find most of the issues occur during upgrades to services, but that is to be expected.

    My internet service is usually more of an issue than most services I run. Though some things take longer to get tweaked and running well and that can cause issues.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Upgrades to services - that’s why I run dev namespaces and copy over my production shares to dev and utilize zfs snapshotting.

      I haven’t set up testing yet and only just started with prometheus monitoring but so far things run pretty well.

        • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          I toyed with dev domain but ended up using namespace.tld and postfixing -dev to my namespace so it works out to service.tld and service-dev.tld.

            • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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              6 months ago

              I have automated traefik to route the traffic, it sets the dns and ingress route. I’m also doing as you suggested for service to service connections.

              • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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                6 months ago

                That makes sense!

                Have you played with anything like Istio to secure in-cluster communications? I think Hashicorp Consul can do something similar to encrypt service to service communications.

                • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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                  6 months ago

                  I looked into it but I felt at the time it was too complex, maybe I’ll look at it again. Currently I am using wireguard for all cluster node-to-node traffic. It seemed like a reasonable tradeoff at the time, but it is at the network layer instead of application, so I really should revisit that at some point.

                  • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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                    6 months ago

                    Yeah it very adds some extra complexity and it’s more important for if you are hosting in public clouds anyways IMO.