I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point. My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to run various services such as Pi-Hole, CUPS, and numerous other software. Since then, my lab has had

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    • @[email protected]
      1•9 months ago

      I have automated traefik to route the traffic, it sets the dns and ingress route. I’m also doing as you suggested for service to service connections.

      • @[email protected]OPM
        2•9 months ago

        That makes sense!

        Have you played with anything like Istio to secure in-cluster communications? I think Hashicorp Consul can do something similar to encrypt service to service communications.

        • @[email protected]
          1•9 months ago

          I looked into it but I felt at the time it was too complex, maybe I’ll look at it again. Currently I am using wireguard for all cluster node-to-node traffic. It seemed like a reasonable tradeoff at the time, but it is at the network layer instead of application, so I really should revisit that at some point.

          • @[email protected]OPM
            2•9 months ago

            Yeah it very adds some extra complexity and it’s more important for if you are hosting in public clouds anyways IMO.