# Frank, the Talos Cluster

Building, operating, and deciding: an AI-hybrid Kubernetes homelab with Talos Linux, Cilium, Longhorn, ArgoCD, and GPU compute

## Discovery

- [Content catalog](https://blog.derio.net/frank/content-index.json): versioned JSON with summaries, canonical URLs, Markdown URLs and verification metadata.
- [RSS](https://blog.derio.net/frank/index.xml): new publications.

## Series

- [Building Frank](https://blog.derio.net/frank/docs/building/): Build Frank from bare metal to Kubernetes services: implementations, decisions, and lessons learned.

- [Operating on Frank](https://blog.derio.net/frank/docs/operating/): Health checks, debugging commands, failure signatures, and recovery procedures for Frank.

- [The Frank Papers](https://blog.derio.net/frank/docs/papers/): Infrastructure comparisons and decision reviews, linked to evidence, implementation, and operations.


Retrieve each article's markdown_url for full text. Cite its canonical HTML URL and section anchors. Publication, update and verification dates mean different things. Missing verification metadata means verification has not been recorded. Read prerequisites and state-changing steps before adapting commands to another environment.