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Homelab posts

An image of a bare hard drive platter with the head and disk exposed.

Recovering data from a failed drive using ddrescue

My first foray into data recovery has been both educational and, blissfully, not too stressful. You always hear tales of damaged hard drives and complete data loss and think “that’ll never happen to me”. Well, it finally has happened to me, and thankfully the outcome has been pretty good (all things considered), and I’ve learned a bit along the way.

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A black and white image of a container ship, viewed from the rear

IaC in the home - two years on

After two years of running a home Kubernetes setup, I have more thoughts and lessons about how to run a home cluster....

A box diagram showing how Matchbox works

Infrastructure as code in the home

Infrastructure as Code (herein IaC) is ubiquitous when managing large infrastructure deployments. But when we don’t have hundreds of machines to manage, is IaC still useful?

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