homelab

Recently, I started getting the dreaded emails from smartd on one of my Proxmox nodes. The drive was (slowly) failing and needed to be replaced. Unfortunately due to my nodes being micro form-factor(MFF), they only have a single drive. This means that I would also need to migrate the VM disks to the new drive too. As this is a homelab setup, I don’t have a ton of capacity or any fancy storage solutions, so I would need to get a little creative and replace the drive in-situ....

A little while back, I wrote a short piece on integrating Cilium with OPNsense using BGP. With more recent releases of Cilium, the team have introduced the Cilium BGP Control Plane (currently as a beta feature). This reworking of the BGP integration replaces the old MetalLB-based control plane and as such the older feature must first be disabled. To enable the new feature, you can either pass an argument to Cilium:...