I am in the process of doing the same. I have a Netbird mesh (Tailscale but open source) with 3 k3s nodes. They are geographically separated for HA.

Claude and Gemini have been instrumental in helping me understand the core concepts of kubernetes, how to tune all these enterprise applications for high latency, think about architecture etc...

My biggest "wow, wtf?" moment was ben I was discussing the cluster architecture with Claude. It asked: want me to start the files?

I thought it meant update the notes, so replied 'yes'.

It spit out 2 sh files and 5 YAMLs that completely bootstrapped my cluster with a full GitOps setup using ArgoCD.

Learning while having a 24/7 senior tutor next to me has been insane value.

Tailscale is pretty sweet. Cloudflare WARP is also pretty sweet, a little clunkier but you get argo routing for free and I trust Cloudflare for security.

why does a post from january 2026 recommend ubuntu version 22.04?

none of you have what it takes to self host your perfect self hosting fantasy because most of you won't cooperate with others. keep waiting for that unicorn you wouldn't see standing right in front of you.

"piping everything to sudo bash makes a home server easier and fun"

Any opinions on Readeck vs Karakeep?

My non-technical friend, never learned coding, doesn't know Linux, zero sysadmi experience does this and he can do anything and doesn't even know what Clause is doing. He learned some concepts recently like Docker, SSH, but that's basically it.

I would also suggest the great Karakeep for read-it-later :)

>Your home server's new sysadmin: Claude Code

Lol, no thank you. Btw do your knees hurt?