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Pacholo Amit

What I run

A production-shaped Kubernetes cluster lives in my house. That is not a personality trait so much as a rehearsal space, I would rather break something here than in a barangay hall.

Homelab

A production-shaped Kubernetes cluster running in my house. Everything is declared in git and applied by Flux, because anything I configured by hand is something I cannot rebuild.

k3s
The Kubernetes distribution. Lightweight, multi-node, highly available.
FluxCD 2
Polls git, reconciles the cluster. The only way changes get in.
Longhorn
Replicated block storage, built by the people behind k3s.
Mozilla SOPS
Secrets encrypted in the repository rather than passed around out of band.
kube-prometheus-stack
Prometheus and Grafana. Knowing whether any of it works.
Velero
Namespace and persistent-volume backup, shipped to S3.
Cloudflared + ingress-nginx
Two tunnel pods on separate nodes, so exposure survives losing one.
Renovate
Keeps Helm charts and images from quietly rotting.

Editor & shell

Arch, a tiling window manager, and a terminal I have spent too long configuring.

Neovim
Configured in Lua. The config is in git like everything else.
Arch Linux + bspwm
Tiling window manager, dotfiles versioned.
reclaim
A CLI I wrote in Bun to recursively find and clear dev cache directories.
Bun
Package manager and runtime for most new work.

Self-hosted

Services I run rather than subscribe to. Most of this is why Songstress exists.

Navidrome
The music server Songstress is built on top of.
Uptime Kuma
Status monitoring. I maintain a theme collection for its status pages.
Grafana
Dashboards over the cluster's Prometheus metrics.
qBittorrent + SABnzbd
Behind a VPN, orchestrated by Compose.

Hardware

The machines all of this runs on.

Not yet listed
Laptop, homelab nodes and peripherals. Coming once I write them down.
Pacholo Amit, interior with window light
Where a lot of this actually gets written.