self-hosted Guides & Tutorials

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Back Up a k3s Node and Restore It 1:1 on New Hardware

How I back up my single-node k3s cluster on Ubuntu and restore it 1:1 onto new hardware — same IP, SSH identity, volumes, and Kubernetes secrets intact.

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Kubernetes

Portside: The Agentless Kubernetes Dashboard That Replaced LogMk

Portside is an agentless, self-hosted Kubernetes dashboard that streams pod logs live from the K8s API — and why I retired LogMk's MySQL log pipeline for it.

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WAF

Thorngate: A Tiny Go WAF That Guards Your Cloudflare Tunnel

Thorngate is a zero-dependency Go reverse-proxy WAF behind a Cloudflare Tunnel that honeypots scanners into a persistent blacklist before they reach your apps.

Terraria

Scale-to-Zero Terraria on k3s with Wake-on-Connect

A TShock Terraria server pegs a CPU core 24/7. Here's a tiny Go proxy that scales the k3s StatefulSet to zero when idle and wakes it on first TCP connect.

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K3s

Make Your k3s Local Storage Persistent with Longhorn

Install Longhorn on your k3s cluster to replace node-bound local-path storage with replicated volumes, and migrate existing PVC data safely, step by step.