A Trusted Certificate for your Homelab Sites

A Trusted Certificate for your Homelab Sites
In this post I will describe how you can set up services in kubernetes that will listen for new ingress, create a certificate, get it signed by letsencrypt and presented on the correct website. It will also automatically update DNS records. In my previous post I described how you can create .local websites on your homelab, and how you can use mDNS to have the sites working without extra configuration. But mDNS is served over http, and many browsers feel slower with http compared to https. [Read More]

A rant about tp-link wifi boxes

No internet? no wifi for you!

A rant about tp-link wifi boxes
My internet was down for several days, (see previous post) and the only thing that really broke, except for obviously internet connected services on home-assistant, was the wifi. I have tp-link deco boxes and they work really okay for most of the time. They form a mesh and connect with whatever connection is best (through electricity, point to point wifi, or a network cable). In general, they just work. Until your internet connection is down. [Read More]