Building a homelab (#1) - Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux

This is part of series Building a homelab, where I document my journey to build my own homelab with Kubernetes. Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux Up until now, I have had some experiences with self-hosting services. However, as I learned more, I could see ways to make my setup better. While learning about Kubernetes, I thought it could be used to host everything that I have self-hosted so far. If I could get it right, it would allow me to manage all the services while also reducing costs. ...

26 February 2026 · 33 min · 6890 words · 이영욱

Hosting Ente with Terraform, Vault, and NixOS

Ente is a platform to host photos that uses end-to-end encryption to store its data. I have more than a decade of photos saved with Google Photos, but I wanted to keep them in a place that is designed to be private. The problem, however, was that the collection grew to a few terabytes over the years, and putting them on a privacy-respecting image platform was either very expensive or outright impossible. To work around the problem, I decided to self-host Ente. ...

28 September 2025 · 48 min · 10116 words · 이영욱