Dokploy

Overview Most of the posts in this series so far have been “here’s how I built X.” This one’s different. It’s about something I built, used for a while, and then mostly walked away from: a Kubernetes cluster running Talos . This isn’t a “Kubernetes is bad” post. It’s a “here’s what it was actually like to run it at home, and why I ended up somewhere simpler” post. The short version: I moved from a Talos-based Kubernetes cluster to a single Proxmox host running a mix of LXC containers and VMs, with Dokploy and Docker Compose handling application deployment. ...

Overview Before writing anything else on this blog, it felt right to write about the blog itself. By the time you’re reading this post, it has already gone through the exact pipeline described below: written in Obsidian , pushed to a git repo, built into a static site, packaged into a container, and deployed to dpall.dev without me touching a server. The goal was simple: writing should be the only manual step. Everything after “commit” should happen on its own. ...