Starting a new Cloud/HomeLab blog at this domain - let me know if you want a contributor invite!
I get what the author is talking about with losing trust in your services when they are unavailable. I have found that a Raspberry Pi 3/4 cluster running k3s utilizing NAS storage has very good uptime and honestly I think my internet service goes down more than my homelab services.
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.
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.
Ive been tinkering with homelab since the OG raspberry pi, never advancing too far, it was a curiosity more than a hobby, but now, after many years of playing, i am taking the plunge to retrain from carpentry to IT, my homelab experience has made this possible, and is a lot less daunting as a middle aged father wig a family to support.