K3s on Proxmox: Production-Ready Cluster from Scratch
Spin up a K3s v1.36.1 cluster on Proxmox VE 9 using dedicated VMs. Control plane, worker nodes, and the baseline configuration that actually holds up in production.
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Spin up a K3s v1.36.1 cluster on Proxmox VE 9 using dedicated VMs. Control plane, worker nodes, and the baseline configuration that actually holds up in production.
CVE-2026-9256 (Poolslip) is a heap buffer overflow in NGINX's rewrite module affecting versions 0.1.17 through 1.31.0. Patching for Rift in May left you exposed. You need 1.30.2 or 1.31.1.
Seven kernel branches shipped June 1. Three security fixes land in 7.0.11 — TCP ISN leak, tap stack leak, and a keyring race. Dirty Frag is now half-patched: CVE-2026-43500 fixed, CVE-2026-43284 still open upstream.
Connect your homelab router to a free live BGP full-table feed and learn RPKI, path selection, communities, and filtering with BIRD2 or FRRouting — using the actual Default-Free Zone table that real ISP routers carry.
ingress-nginx was archived on March 24, 2026. About half of cloud-native environments still run it. Here is what a real migration looks like: the options, the trade-offs, and the parts nobody tells you about upfront.
OpenBSD 7.9 adds P/E-core-aware scheduling and unlocked socket splicing for multi-core throughput. The 60th release of the most security-focused BSD.
ingress-nginx went EOL in March 2026. No security patches, no CVE fixes. 50% of Kubernetes clusters still run it. Time to move to Gateway API.
Running K3s inside Proxmox VMs exposed problems the quick-start skips. MTU mismatches, storage driver conflicts, node-pressure evictions — here is what broke.