Last updated 2026-07-10, 7 min read A little less than a year ago I wrote : Everything is in shambles. One machine is dead and probably not coming back. Services are randomly scattered amongst the survivors. My Kubernetes project is kinda-sorta paused. This post is an addendum to that one, where I'm going to give an overview of what I've settled on, as much as one can settle in a homelab. To recap a bit, in the previous post I had a bunch of machines that were mashed together into something resembling a coherent cluster: hypnotoad , crushinator , and a precarious control plane VM running on a thin client lrrr , an N150 box running Proxmox nibbler , a piece of shit Of those four machines, lrrr is the sole survivor.…