https://joesindel.com/tags/cilium/Recent content in Cilium on JoeSindel.comHugoenMon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://joesindel.com/posts/bare-metal-kubernetes-homelab-part-0/Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://joesindel.com/posts/bare-metal-kubernetes-homelab-part-0/<p>This is Part 0 of a series on building a real bare-metal Kubernetes cluster at home — not a single-node k3s toy, but the kind of setup whose patterns transfer directly to production: immutable nodes, GitOps, declarative everything, and machines you can wipe and rebuild from the network without touching them.</p> <p>Part 0 is the foundation: PXE-booting Talos Linux off a server I run on my NAS, and bringing up the first control-plane node. It is also a fairly complete catalog of the ways I broke it before it worked. I&rsquo;m including those on purpose. The clean version of this post would be half the length and a tenth as useful.</p>