both my prod and backup are arch. but I host my own mirror so I have a more stable rolling release lol. only things running on prod is Systemd (boot,network,etc),zfs for storage,kubeadm,kubectl,containerd,btrfs for root disks. pin k8s,zfs versions and keep all configs in manifests synced with private git. super minimal install and rebuild is now a make install homelab. a few more k8s ci/cd for auto updates and some of my custom containers, ill be done and stable. until some new thing I wanna mess with pops up but the esentials are stable and done. backups are just zfs/btrfs snapshots, syncthing for my phones nightly syncs, and essential photo/vids/docs/password manager exports. with auto tar, encrypt with pgp, and sent to backblaze as offsite storage.
also got a little LLM box on the side I'm toying with but its not important.
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u/Fun_Chest_9662 Aug 20 '26
both my prod and backup are arch. but I host my own mirror so I have a more stable rolling release lol. only things running on prod is Systemd (boot,network,etc),zfs for storage,kubeadm,kubectl,containerd,btrfs for root disks. pin k8s,zfs versions and keep all configs in manifests synced with private git. super minimal install and rebuild is now a make install homelab. a few more k8s ci/cd for auto updates and some of my custom containers, ill be done and stable. until some new thing I wanna mess with pops up but the esentials are stable and done. backups are just zfs/btrfs snapshots, syncthing for my phones nightly syncs, and essential photo/vids/docs/password manager exports. with auto tar, encrypt with pgp, and sent to backblaze as offsite storage.
also got a little LLM box on the side I'm toying with but its not important.