Tag: infrastructure

All the articles with the tag "infrastructure".

Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph

25 Jun, 2026

Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage, Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.

OpenRouter vs LiteLLM

8 Jun, 2026 · Updated: 29 Aug, 2026

OpenRouter is a hosted gateway, LiteLLM a self-hosted proxy, and Stripe now owns one of them. Which one belongs in your home lab as of August 2026?

HashiCorp Vault: Stop Hardcoding Secrets Like It's 2012

1 Nov, 2025 · Updated: 6 Aug, 2026

HashiCorp Vault tutorial: KV v2 secrets, AppRole auth, dynamic database credentials that auto-expire, a PKI certificate authority, and auto-unseal with cloud KMS.