From Homelab to Production - TalosCon 2024

As you move from homelab to production with Talos, you will be faced with several challenges: non-disruptive upgrades, backup & restore, securing secrets, observability at multiple levels & host security. Let me show you how I reached a simple & efficient productions K8s setup with Talos.

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00:00 Intro
01:06 How this started
01:55 What are the two things wrong?
02:48 LattePanga Sigma
03:29 Portable homelab
04:15 What is Omni?
04:42 How do I bootstrap my homelab?
06:20 What is running on this homelab?
08:15 Daggerverse on the Tailnet
09:36 How many requests per second?
13:40 Can we squeeze more requests per second?
14:45 300B requests per month on a K8s phone
15:09 Why Single Node?
16:33 Why Kubernetes?
17:29 Let's scale this homelab into production
19:02 What is Dagger?
20:55 The digitalocean function
24:22 dagger call digitalocean
28:38 We have a problem
29:49 How to bootstrap db from backup
30:59 Production network benchmark
31:34 Takeaways
34:22 Outro
35:53 Questions from the audience
40:39 One more thing