Blog | Kyriakos Papadopoulos

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Home Assistant High Availability (HAHA)

The problem with smart homes There is a certain irony in building a smart home that becomes useless the moment a single Raspberry Pi decides to fail. I had been running Home Assistant on a standalone VM for years, and while it worked, I found myself increasingly aware of just how fragile the setup was. A failed disk, a corrupted SD card, an unfortunate kernel panic during a firmware update — any of these would leave me fumbling for light switches like it was 1995. ...

Building a Multi-Site Kubernetes Cluster with BGP Anycast

The restlessness I had a perfectly stable single-site Kubernetes cluster in the Netherlands. It worked, it was reliable, and by any reasonable measure, it was enough. But I have learned over the years that when things become too stable, too predictable, I start looking for the next challenge; this pattern has followed me throughout my career, moving on whenever circumstances headed toward a stale that was beyond my control to influence. ...