Security and observability with Cilium on my 5G network

Security and observability with Cilium on my 5G network

Last June I shared a post about deploying a 4G core network, exploring containerization of 4G telco applications at home with GNS3. That time GNS3 was acting as another layer of virtualization since it was running as a VM on top of my NAS. This time I’ve decided to convert my main server from a NAS-first equipment to a hypervisor-first solution, allowing me to spin up VMs faster and more efficiently with the help of Terraform and Ansible....

Terraform and Ansible control node as LXC container

Re-engineering the Homelab with IaC and Kubernetes: An overview

In relation to my previous post where I mentioned that I will be starting a new journey learning IaC or Infrastructure-as-Code, today I am very happy to record this milestone of finally achieving a stable kubernetes cluster created with the help of Ansible and Terraform. At this time of writing, so far only two services have been migrated from the docker environment into the new K8S cluster. That is my DNS which is also replaced now by AdguardHome (sorry Pihole!...