
Cilium CNI K3s kube-proxy Replacement — Full eBPF Networking
Configure cilium cni k3s kube-proxy replacement with full eBPF networking, Hubble observability, and native Gateway API support. 4 critical gotchas covered.
Notes, experiments, and ramblings from my homelab
Building a GitOps-driven homelab, one experiment at a time.

Configure cilium cni k3s kube-proxy replacement with full eBPF networking, Hubble observability, and native Gateway API support. 4 critical gotchas covered.

k3s ansible bootstrap proxmox: embedded etcd, no external dependencies, and 4 critical gotchas including the silent sudo failure.

opentofu proxmox vm provisioning for standalone (non-clustered) nodes: provider aliases, GitLab HTTP backend state, cloud-init SSH injection, and the four gotchas that cost me real time.

A complete homelab kubernetes gitops architecture walkthrough: OpenTofu, Proxmox, Ansible, K3s, Cilium, ArgoCD, GitLab CE, cert-manager, Longhorn, OpenBao, ESO, and kube-prometheus-stack.