https://bighaus.nl/tags/self-hosted/Recent content in Self-Hosted on BigHausHugoenMon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bighaus.nl/work/big-haus/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bighaus.nl/work/big-haus/<p>BigHaus 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.</p> <h4 id="approach">Approach</h4> <p>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&rsquo;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.</p>