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Exposing Your First Public Kubernetes App: “Hello World” on mydomain.com

Thiago Crepaldi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:13:26 +0000

Today, we are taking our private, enterprise-grade Kubernetes cluster and safely piercing the veil to the public internet. Building on our previous guides, we will deploy a standard Nginx-based “Hello World” application and configure our infrastructure so it is reachable at hello.mydomain.com with valid, public-trusted SSL certificates—all while keeping your cluster security intact. By the...

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Deploying Vaultwarden into a Kubernetes with High Availability

Thiago Crepaldi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:01:46 +0000

In an earlier post, we covered Deploying a Public Vaultwarden Instance on a Proxmox LXC Container Using HAProxy on pfSense. While that architecture served us well, running a critical service like a password manager on a single node introduces a single point of failure. This guide represents the evolution of that setup. We are deploying...

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Building an Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes (k3s) Stack on Proxmox VE

Thiago Crepaldi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:25:25 +0000

Today, we are building a homelab-grade, production-ready Kubernetes cluster using K3s (Lightweight Kubernetes), Rancher for cluster management, Helm as package manager, NGINX Ingress Controller for reverse proxy and MetaILB as load balancer, Longhorn for fast Distributed Block Storage, NFS mountpoint from a Synology NAS as high capacity Storage, Cert-Manager as Let’s Encrypt certificate manager on...

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Setup Nvidia GPU Passthrough for Ubuntu VMs on Proxmox 9.2

Thiago Crepaldi — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:42:10 +0000

You compiled your proprietary Nvidia drivers natively on Proxmox 9.2 (Debian Trixie / Kernel 7.x) using our previous post, and you verified that your host recognizes the silicon. But letting your hypervisor have all the fun may be a waste of pure compute horsepower in certain applications, say when you want to run a Kubernetes...

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Installing latest NVIDIA GPU Driver on Proxmox 9.2 (Debian Trixie + Linux Kernel 7.x)

Thiago Crepaldi — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:21:28 +0000

If you have recently upgraded to Proxmox VE 9.2 (which transitions to Debian 13 Trixie and the new Linux Kernel 7.x branch), you likely noticed that your NVIDIA driver installation completely falls apart during compilation. If your home lab relies on an NVIDIA GPU for Plex transcoding, AI inferencing (Ollama), or VM hardware passthrough, this...

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Private PyPI with Docker Compose on RHEL 8.10

Thiago Crepaldi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:49:25 +0000

For developers managing internal libraries or AI infrastructure, a private PyPI server is essential for hosting nightly builds without polluting public registries. devpi is the gold standard for this, specifically for its “volatile” index feature which allows for rapid iteration. In this guide, we’ll deploy it on RHEL 8.10 using Docker Compose, rooting everything in...

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Troubleshooting “Failed” pfSense+ Upgrades on Netgate Hardware

Thiago Crepaldi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:25:10 +0000

The Disk Space Wall Updating your firewall is usually a “set it and forget it” task, but if you’re running a high-performance appliance like the Netgate 6100, you might occasionally hit a wall. In my case, I triggered the update from 25.x to 26.03, the logs start rolling, and then—Failed. If your logs mention cloning...

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How to Natively Run Prometheus Plex Exporter on Proxmox LXC and Import on Grafana

Thiago Crepaldi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:02:19 +0000

If you are running a homelab like mine, you probably rely heavily on Proxmox to manage your infrastructure. I recently deployed a monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana within a lightweight LXC container, which I will post more about later. Everything was working perfectly until I decided to add metrics for my Plex Media Server....

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Setting up No-IP DDNS on your Unifi Dream Router

Thiago Crepaldi — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:04:35 +0000

No-IP is a simple and free Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS) service that is supported as a custom configuration on your Unifi Dream Router (aka UDR), but still very stable and easy to get it running with the right steps. Although I have mentioned this tutorial is meant for the Unifi dream Router, it should also...

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Setting up DuckDNS DDNS on your Unifi Dream Router

Thiago Crepaldi — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:24:00 +0000

DuckDNS is a simple and free Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS) service that is supported as a custom configuration on your Unifi Dream Router (aka UDR), but still very stable and easy to get it running with the right steps. Although I have mentioned this tutorial is meant for the Unifi dream Router, it should also...

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