In my last post, Stop Using the Wrong CNI: Why Your Homelab Deserves Cilium in 2026, we established a production-grade networking foundation for our Talos Kubernetes cluster. But a powerful CNI is only half the story. To truly manage our cluster like a professional, we must automate and declare everything.
In my last post, The Four-Repo GitOps Structure for My Homelab Platform, I laid out the architectural blueprint for managing my homelab like a production environment. Building on the automation I detailed in my popular post, Need for Speed: Automating Proxmox K8s Clusters with Talos Omni, we now have a cluster ready for a production-grade CNI. Now that we have a solid GitOps foundation and a running Talos Kubernetes cluster, it’s time to address a critical component: networking.
