TLDR; How to bootstrap Flux with Forgejo. Context I’m currently using a Raspberry Pi as a home lab, mainly to learn Kubernetes “the hard way” by installing and configuring as much as possible, instead of relying on managed services like EKS or GKE. See for example my previous post on Longhorn and Tailscale. The next tool I wanted to try is Flux, a GitOps operator for Kubernetes. Reading their Getting started guide, I discovered that they support multiple Git providers, and one that I find particularly interesting for my home lab, which is Gitea.

TLDR; How to expose the Longhorn UI through Tailscale. Context Longhorn is a cloud native distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. To access their web UI, we have to create an Ingress to allow external traffic to reach the Longhorn UI. The documentation uses the Nginx Ingress Controller, but as I’m using Tailscale instead, I wanted to see if it’s possible to expose the Longhorn UI to my tailnet. It turns out it is possible, and here is how to do it.