[vegarde]

Author here. A few decades in IT, but still like to learn new things at home.

I do port forwarding for IPv4. But port forwarding on IPv6? You must be kidding me, the /56 I get from my ISP is meant to be used on the inside. It hasn't changed yet, and maybe it never will.

I am running Unifi as router, and they are claiming that the prefix IDs assigned to the networks won't change. But I have had it happen - probably through my own fault. Wish I could just hardcode the prefix. As for the metalLB IP addresses, since writing this I have done away with hardcoding the actual IP addresses and just let the pool assign them. It still means I need to update the firewall rules on my router, though, should they change. And my metalLB range would of course need to be updated.

The IPv4 is still hardcoded due to the port forwarding, and since it's private space that I won't change anyhow.

As for why I don't do it manually, you must be kidding me. You are. reading hacker news, and you question why people tinker with complex automations and just don't do it manually? Because I can of course, and that's the only reason I need.

I like to pretend like my home network matter, that I run a mission critical service.

I run services at home. Multiple. Because I can, and I like to learn. The blog runs at home, of course, even though hosted blog services have existed for years now. I also run Nextcloud. It saves me the cost of extra storage on Dropbox and/or Google Cloud, I do it to my home network instead. Then there's plex, home assistant plus all the other services a geek would like to run. They all run in my K8s cluster now. I was served well by docker for years, but I wanted to test K8s, and that was the only reason I needed.

And a cluster? Well, it's called that in Kubernetes. But in reality, it's only one node. Because two would be overkill for home usage.

To sum it up:

I did it because

1) I wanted to 2) I could 3) I would learn something from it 4) It would give a modest benefit.

It's all the reason I needed to.

As for why automating things I could do it manually should it happen, see 1, 2, 3 and 4 above.