I'm building a highly available homelab to learn more about on-prem infrastructure. The setup is a three-node Proxmox cluster, with each node running VMs for DNS, HAProxy, a…
I'm reviewing a two-node Windows Server Failover Cluster running SQL Server on virtual machines, with Dell Unity 480F SAN storage. The environment currently uses Always On Availability Groups,…
I inherited a two-node Windows Server Failover Cluster running SQL Server on virtual machines with Dell Unity SAN storage. The environment uses Always On Availability Groups, and one…
We have one FortiGate-VM in AWS today and are adding a second. Each appliance will establish an IPsec tunnel back to our corporate office. We want traffic and…
I work for a small managed-services provider and need to improve resilience for a client. Their current setup is one physical Windows Server 2022 host running two Hyper-V…
I work for a small managed services provider and need to improve resilience for a client. Their Windows Server 2022 host currently runs two Hyper-V virtual machines: one…
I'm considering replacing or reducing our managed NAT Gateway usage with FCK-NAT to lower networking costs. Has anyone operated it in production, particularly with several terabytes of monthly…
I'm a junior engineer designing a production-oriented reference architecture for on-premises Kubernetes and implementing it as reproducible Ansible code. The goal is not just to automate a cluster…
I'm a junior engineer designing a production-oriented reference architecture for on-premises Kubernetes and implementing it as reproducible Ansible code. The goal isn't just to automate an installation; it's…
I'm trying to run a basic highly available PostgreSQL cluster with Spilo-based images in Docker Swarm. Every few days, it starts failing in several ways: DNS resolution problems,…
I'm trying to run a basic highly available PostgreSQL cluster with Spilo images on a Docker Swarm setup, but every few days it starts failing in multiple ways:…
I'm a recent graduate working on the web development team at a medical clinic. Our small IT department supports internal patient-record systems, HR tools, appointment scheduling, and on-site…
I'm a web developer with more than two years of experience, and I recently took on a complete project that also requires me to make the hosting and…
I'm a recent graduate working on the web development team at a medical clinic. Our small IT department supports internal patient-record systems, HR tools, appointment systems, and on-site…
I've been asked to design a highly available, fault-tolerant on-premises Kubernetes environment for GPU-based workloads. The target is roughly 1,000 registered users, with about 50 users per day,…
I've been asked to design a highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes environment for on-premises GPU workloads. The system may serve roughly 1,000 registered users, with around 50 active users…
Our cluster is required to pull images through an internal buffered registry, which fetches them from an upstream location. That buffered registry went down yesterday, preventing some pods…
I'm building a small self-hosted platform in a homelab Kubernetes cluster with Gitea, Harbor, and CI runners. Gitea needs persistent repository and application storage, while Harbor can use…
I'm building a small homelab platform on Kubernetes with Gitea, Harbor, and CI runners. Gitea needs persistent repository and application data, while Harbor can use persistent volumes or…
Our cluster is required to pull images through an internal buffered registry, which then retrieves them from an upstream location. That buffered registry was unavailable yesterday, and some…