I Run Bare-Metal Kubernetes on $200 of Scrap Hardware (And Why I Burned 3 SD Cards Learning)


From a bricked Raspberry Pi to a 4-node Talos Linux cluster running Cilium eBPF, ArgoCD, and Longhorn — every failure, every fix, and the homelab that now hosts my production side projects.




The Setup


It started with a Dell OptiPlex I found in...