Building a Production Homelab: Multi-Node Proxmox Cluster with Kubernetes

<h2> Why Proxmox VE should be the heart of your homelab </h2> <p>Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) offers <strong>fully open-source</strong> and <strong>KVM + LXC</strong> support

<p>I wanted a Kubernetes lab that would still be there the next morning.</p> <p>A temporary cluster on my laptop would be useful for testing manifests, but it would disappear when

<p>The shift from cloud API dependency to local LLM inference is no longer just a privacy concern—in 2026, it is a strict financial necessity. With the rising costs of token

<p>In <a href="https://peculiarengineer.com/blog/kubernetes-first-app-k3s-single-node/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Part One</a> I deployed nginx on a single k3s node and killed a

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<p>For a year, I ran a monolithic microservices host on a single Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine. The goal was simple: centralize my data and route around my ISP's Carrier-Grade

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<h1> K3s vs K8s: When K3s Actually Wins in Production </h1> <p>We migrated 12 edge clusters from K8s to K3s. Here's the honest breakdown — when K3s actually wins, when it costs