DNS with a deliberate path

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200

More than a name lookup

DNS is a shared dependency for home devices, Kubernetes workloads and internal services. My homelab separates those responsibilities rather than treating every lookup as the same problem.

Pi-hole provides filtering for LAN clients. Unbound handles upstream resolution. CoreDNS remains responsible for Kubernetes service discovery and selected internal hostname overrides. The purpose is a DNS path that can be explained, constrained and observed—not simply a resolver that answers.

Giving home systems a common metrics language

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200

A solar inverter on the local network, climate units behind a SaaS API and smart devices in a vendor cloud do not naturally belong in the same operational view. Prometheus exporters provide the translation layer: each integration handles its own protocol, authentication and data shape, then exposes metrics through the same HTTP contract.

That separation keeps vendor-specific complexity at the edge. Prometheus only needs to scrape a predictable endpoint, while Grafana can work with stable names, labels and health signals. DSMR P1 energy-meter data joins the same wider home-metrics landscape.

Kubernetes on Ivan Versluis — Networknet

DNS with a deliberate path

More than a name lookup

Giving home systems a common metrics language