← Work TheBigHouse · 2026 · Solo Engineer
The platform is live in production.
TheBigHouse is my personal brand for IT work — and the platform behind it is built to match. Rather than delegating to managed hosting, I run a self-hosted K3s cluster in production, giving full ownership and control over the stack and its costs.
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Solo Engineer
- Stack
- K3s · Hugo · ArgoCD · Mailu · Cert-Manager
Approach
The goal was a GitOps platform: every service declared in version control, every change applied automatically. Getting K3s, a Dockerized Hugo site, Mailu for mail, Cert-Manager with Let’s Encrypt, and ArgoCD to operate as a coherent whole was the core challenge — not any single service, but the discipline of making them all declarative and self-healing. ArgoCD watches the repository and reconciles cluster state on every push, so deployments require no manual intervention.
Outcome
The platform is live in production. This site is served from it.