Introduction For years, VMware ESXi has been the backbone of my homelab. Solid, reliable, and well-documented, it was a natural choice. But the landscape has changed. Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the free ESXi license has been discontinued, and support for non-enterprise hardware — especially…

Intro In today's digital landscape, efficiently serving images is critical for website performance. Users expect fast-loading, responsive websites, and images often account for the majority of a page's weight. In this article, I'll walk you through building a powerful, scalable image CDN using open-source tools…

Here we are In today's interconnected world, exposing your home lab or self-hosted services to the internet can be both necessary and risky. Traditional methods like port forwarding or VPNs come with their own set of challenges and security concerns. This is where Cloudflare Tunnel…

Strange ... we are using hpa to increase the availability and we are introducing rate limit to reduce? Well let's create the context... This story is not a true o false sentence, it's a sort of analysis based on a few assumptions: In Kubernetes, a…