GGeorge EzejioforOct 17 · 50 min readBrownfield Kubeflow on RKE2: Swapping Dex & SeaweedFS for Keycloak & Ceph RGWUpstream Kubeflow assumes a greenfield cluster and ships its own Dex, SeaweedFS and MySQL, with its own oauth2-proxy in front. My homelab already had better versions of most of those. This is the brow2Ygeorgeezejiofor.com
GGeorge EzejioforOct 16 · 40 min readSelf-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse (AI/ML Data Factory)Self-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse Part of the homelab build series. Trino, Apache Iceberg, Project Nessie, dbt, Spark, MLflow and OpenMetadata on RKE2, with highly available s312YBNgeorgeezejiofor.com
OOnlive ServerOct 17 · 9 min readBuilding a Zero-License Private Cloud: Step-by-Step Proxmox VE 8 High-Availability Cluster DeploymentBuilding a private cloud does not always require a proprietary hypervisor license. With Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 8, system administrators can combine virtualization, distributed storage, clustonliveinfotech.hashnode.dev
GGeorge EzejioforOct 6 · 21 min readRKE2 Homelab Storage: Rook-Ceph & CloudNativePG (The Garage & Cabinets )Episode 5 of the homelab build series. Terraform poured the foundation, Ansible and RKE2 framed the walls, Kyverno and friends wired the alarms, and Tekton and Harbor built the workshop out back. Thisgeorgeezejiofor.com
PParsa GheiratianSep 5 · 26 min readDetecting Ceph LARGE_OMAP_OBJECTS Before Deep Scrub Finds ItLARGE_OMAP_OBJECTS has an annoying property: it tells you about a problem that started days ago. An RGW bucket index shard, a CephFS metadata object, or an application object built on librados grows pvexsx.hashnode.dev
SSanskriti HarmukhAug 6 · 11 min readDeploying CephFS as a Self-Hosted GCP Filestore AlternativeCephFS is a POSIX-compliant distributed file system built on Ceph, deployable on Kubernetes via the Rook operator with dynamic CSI provisioning and optional NFS-Ganesha export for external clients, a vultr.hashnode.dev
GGabriel GonzalezAug 1 · 11 min readProxmox StorageIn any Virtualization environment, storage is a fundamental component, as it is where Virtual Machines reside. Correct planning and deployment start with a robust storage strategy. Fortunately, Proxmobeyondbaremetal.hashnode.dev
JJakson TateJul 23 · 8 min readWekaFS vs Ceph on Bare Metal: Stop AI GPU StarvationAI companies are spending millions of dollars on high-end NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPU clusters, only to watch them sit completely idle 70% of the time. This phenomenon is known as GPU Starvation. The comservermo.hashnode.dev
AAmir KolahiJul 2 · 21 min readCeph Storage Cluster — From Concepts to a Working ApplicationA complete, hands-on reference covering Ceph architecture, a 3-node cluster deployment with cephadm, object (RGW/S3) and block (RBD) storage, and a containerized application that consumes both. Enviro63MBamirkolahi.ir
MMourad Ilyes MlikApr 3 · 9 min readRunning Nextcloud on CephFS in ProductionMost Nextcloud deployments run on a single server with local disk or maybe an NFS mount. That works until it doesn't — a disk fails, the server goes down, or you run out of space and have to figure ou1mmitech.hashnode.dev