I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point. My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to run various services such as Pi-Hole, CUPS, and numerous other software. Since then, my lab has had

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    8 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.

    • jaxOPMA
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      8 months ago

      Oh, dev namespaces are a good idea. Do you have a dev domain then too?

      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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        8 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.

        • jaxOPMA
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          8 months ago

          Ah okay that makes sense, you’re using the internal cluster domain to route to services

          • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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            8 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.

            • jaxOPMA
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              8 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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                8 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.

                • jaxOPMA
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                  8 months ago

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