Hey everyone,

The full CI/CD pipeline for my DevOps blog is now fully operational! After a solid journey of learning and quite a bit of troubleshooting, I can confirm that a git push on my blog repo now automatically results in a live update on my K3s homelab cluster. This feels like a huge step forward in my automation goals.

The Full Cycle

It’s truly satisfying to see the entire process work seamlessly:

So I just got my blog set up with an automated CI pipeline. Now, I can write a post, commit, push to GitHub, and it goes live on my devops-blog repo in the future will be in the k3s-homelab repo integrated with a full CI/CD pipeline. It’s been a challenging process, but worth it.

The Setup

Getting this far meant a few steps. My K3s homelab runs on old laptops, hosting services like Grafana and Prometheus. The goal was always to integrate my blog into this.

Welcome to My DevOps Journey! 🚀

This is my first post deployed via CI/CD pipeline to my K3s cluster.

What I’ve Built So Far:

• 2-node K3s cluster on old laptops (Toshiba + Acer)
• Monitoring with Prometheus + Grafana
• Networking with Tailscale + Cloudflare tunnels
• Glance dashboard for service overview
• Basic scripts for automating deployments and provisioning

Next Steps:

• ✅ Master CI/CD pipelines (currently working on this!)
• Add more applications to the cluster
• Document everything

The Setup:

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