I've been doing HomeLab and HomeLab-adjacent things for over 10 years at this point (based on the ago of Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi 2, this would be closer to 8+ years). My first experience in the space was a Raspberry Pi 2 that I used for a few years to

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  • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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    8 months ago

    That makes sense!

    Have you played with anything like Istio to secure in-cluster communications? I think Hashicorp Consul can do something similar to encrypt service to service communications.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I looked into it but I felt at the time it was too complex, maybe I’ll look at it again. Currently I am using wireguard for all cluster node-to-node traffic. It seemed like a reasonable tradeoff at the time, but it is at the network layer instead of application, so I really should revisit that at some point.

      • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOPM
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        8 months ago

        Yeah it very adds some extra complexity and it’s more important for if you are hosting in public clouds anyways IMO.