A Locked Front Door
The front door got a real lock: Cloudflare Access in front of n8n and the home dashboard, an authenticator app login for dashboard edits, and Grafana self sign-up pinned off.
2310, 2026
2310, 2026
Dashboards and Discovery
A busy week in the cluster: my home dashboard learned to find apps on its own, and Node-RED and an MQTT broker moved in.
2310, 2026
n8n Grows Up: Hardened, Multi-Tenant and a Little Bit Smarter
This week n8n on the cluster went from “neat experiment” to something I’d actually call production worthy. First up, the hardening. n8n is now on version 2, and everything it needs is in the GitOps repo. The secrets (API keys, encryption keys, database passwords) are encrypted with SOPS, so they sit right in the repo safely and Flux decrypts them
2210, 2026
The Laptop That Kept Falling Asleep
My Mac mini kept reporting the M5 laptop as offline. The culprit was one tiny power setting, and the fix came with Wake-on-LAN and a smart plug.
1807, 2026
In orbit around planet CKA
Made it through the Udemy CKA course today and even managed to muddle through all the Lab Tests. Quite the feeling of accomplishment getting to the end. Now the real work starts reviewing all of the Labs to test my recall rate and polish up on the concepts I stumbled over along the path to completion. Then on to KillerShell tests