Homelab Adventures: From K3s to Nomad to Reclaim My Free Time (Part 2)
How dismantling K3s, eliminating StatefulSets, and moving observability to the cloud transformed Travolta and Thurman into a lean Nomad cluster powered by GitHub Actions.
Engineering high-performance distributed systems, resilient cloud architectures, and production-ready AI Agent automations for mission-critical platforms.
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How dismantling K3s, eliminating StatefulSets, and moving observability to the cloud transformed Travolta and Thurman into a lean Nomad cluster powered by GitHub Actions.
The GitOps Pull vs. Push dilemma in small infrastructures: replacing heavyweight in-cluster operators and broken reconciliation loops with ephemeral Tailscale pipelines and decoupled SOPS + Nomad Variables secret management.
How two mini PCs running K3s went from the ultimate Kubernetes playground to devouring my evenings with the classic Homelabber Syndrome.
From microservices in Spring Boot & FastAPI deployed on AWS/Kubernetes, to zero-downtime migrations in RDS Aurora and advanced automations with AI Agents.
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