I host this blog from my garage

Very nice set up. Thanks for sharing, thanks for submitting. Very great technology to be able to set up & have running, have at your back. A lot of haters, but this is such a vast leap beyond a personal server, to having real cloud infrastructure, to having one and only one control plane for all your systems.

Recap of tech choices: Cilium networking, MetalLB load balancing, nginx ingress, Rook/Ceph storage, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring/alerting, Loki logs, Harbor container registry, Flux for GitOps.

Also a huge shout out to the Ingress controller comparison spreadsheet[1] the author made! Really nice being able to compare these feature sets. Neat to see a couple folks already working on HTTP3 & QUIC load balancing, who does Maglev routing, who has the best offload capabilities. This definitely brought my interest in Apache APISIX way way up.

The author digs at their own infrastructure some, calling it for learning. But to me, I think it's bad/dangerous having a conservative outlook that personal users should have to learn/use inferior/lesser tools (dozens of hours), it's bad to bifurcate the computing world into high and low computing. It took the author a lot of effort I'm sure to cobble together this system, but my hope is, over time, we start to make works like this much more paved road, and we start to make them much more accessible & documented & supported. We still haven't seen personal-use-focused Kubernetes distributions arrive, but I'm hoping that happens. Here's the author's description:

> By trying out "flashy" software in a low-stakes environment, I can have some idea of how it will work in production-critical ones, which helps me make better choices. (As an example, my attempts to run Istio in a homelab setting have convinced me that it should be avoided in most circumstances.)

Again I think this is undershooting the real value, of using real tools. The hill to climb right now seems big. But imo the effort one's going to invest in selfhosting is probably going to be significant, and I like a lot the plan of shooting for good.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoU...

Heh, I'm actually more interested in the "garage" piece of the blog which is barely touched on. I also run a home lab, but from my climate-controlled relatively clean basement. I've thought about moving it to the garage, but I'm worried about temperature and dust/dirt ingress. Do you have a sealed cabinet or air filters or any other environmental controls around the servers? Or are you using industrial machines rated for dusty locations? Otherwise a garage actually doesn't seem like a great place to put servers.

>Well, hosting a blog from home is probably not a great idea from a practical perspective.

I'm not a hater, but maybe he perceives it as not practical here because of all the fun unnecessary complexity. Keeping something like this going for more than a couple years would require complex sysadmin maintainence for updates (which is fun till it isn't).

But if you just install nginx from your system repositories, have your hugo generated .html and media files in your www dir, and forward a port 80 on your router to your server LAN IP:80, it's going to work until your distro stops working without input and without security issues. For most people, for most of the time, it works great. And it's okay if it doesn't work some of the time.

Hosting your blog from home, in whatever room, is a great idea and very practical.

It's not too difficult or costly to frame+finish a corner closet if you have the garage space to spare, especially if the garage interior isn't already finished.