Ghost in the Rack

Aleksander Johansen

Setting up proper logging after spending hours troubleshooting blind Adventures: A Personal Technical Story

My experience implementing Setting up proper logging after spending hours troubleshooting blind in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

My Journey with Setting up monitoring that actually alerts me when things break: A Homelab Story

My experience implementing Setting up monitoring that actually alerts me when things break in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

Why I Finally Moved My Homelab to Infrastructure as Code (After Manually Configuring Things 100 Times)

My journey from the repetitive pain of manual homelab configuration to the glorious automation of Infrastructure as Code. Learn about the challenges, the 'aha!' moments, and the tools that transformed my tinkering.

My Experience with Setting up monitoring that actually alerts me when things break: What I Learned

My experience implementing Setting up monitoring that actually alerts me when things break in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

My Journey with How I automated my entire home with Home Assistant (and broke it twice): A Homelab Story

My experience implementing How I automated my entire home with Home Assistant (and broke it twice) in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

Running fiber to my garage: drilling holes, pulling cables, and lessons learned Adventures: A Personal Technical Story

My experience implementing Running fiber to my garage: drilling holes, pulling cables, and lessons learned in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

Converting my gaming PC into a hypervisor: trials and tribulations Adventures: A Personal Technical Story

My experience implementing Converting my gaming PC into a hypervisor: trials and tribulations in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

My first attempt at running Kubernetes at home: spoiler alert, it was painful

Join me on a candid journey through my initial, often frustrating, foray into setting up a Kubernetes cluster in my homelab. From battling networking woes to deciphering YAML, I share the painful lessons learned and the eventual triumph of getting it (mostly) working.

How I Finally Got Building a CI/CD pipeline for my homelab scripts and configs Working in My Homelab

My experience implementing Building a CI/CD pipeline for my homelab scripts and configs in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

My Experience with My disaster with ZFS pools: how I lost 2TB and got it back: What I Learned

My experience implementing My disaster with ZFS pools: how I lost 2TB and got it back in my homelab - the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.