Posts on Dan Dean

K3s over Tailnet

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:59:36 -0400

I set my home lab is set up with K3s. This is great, but I’d like to access it from not just inside my dungeon.

To make this happen, I set up the network with Tailscale. With a NixOS, this is dirt-simple:

{ lib, config, ... }: {
 options = { tailscale.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Enable Tailscale"; };
 config = { services.tailscale.enable = config.tailscale.enable; };
}

I added the Tailnet IP to the ~/.kube/config.

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
 server: https://<Tailnet IP>:6443
 name: default

kubectl get nodes…

Hello World

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:59:36 -0400

NixOS on Asahi

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:59:36 -0400

I ran out of space on my 2020 Macbook Pro M1. I’m not sure what it says about what kind of person I am, but to me that just meant I had to factory reset it. And if I was factory resetting it, I might as well boot it with Linux.

I spent some time (less than a week) on the Asahi Fedora Remix. Before this, I was using Nix Darwin, but Nix isn’t available on Fedora.