Operational standards — farm and homelab platform¶
Purpose: One catalog for repeatable operator norms on the farm edge / homelab stack (Pi, k3s, Longhorn, telemetry) and two-site network roles—without replacing procedural runbooks. Rule: standards state what must be true; guides state how to do it step-by-step. Guide policy (location, maturity, linking): Procedural guides package strategy — Smart Farm Wiki.
Doctrine: Platform doctrine package — homelab / farm edge · Backup and disaster recovery — doctrine hub · Off-grid power and field networking hub.
Homelab / Kubernetes edge¶
| Standard | Covers |
|---|---|
Raspberry Pi fleet provisioning standard — smart farm / homelab |
OS, disk, iSCSI, hostname, join hygiene |
k3s cluster bootstrap standard — smart farm / homelab |
Bootstrap order, prerequisites pointer, phase gates |
Kubernetes edge — scheduling, storage class, and Longhorn roles standard |
Labels, taints, StorageClass defaults, Longhorn placement |
Secrets and certificates — edge cluster standard |
No plain secrets in Git, rotation, break-glass |
Observability, secrets, and trust bar — homelab / farm edge |
Alert philosophy, SOPS/Flux context, remote trust bar (pairs with secrets + monitoring standards) |
Monitoring and logging expectations — edge cluster standard |
Minimum observability bar (metrics/logs) |
Backup validation cadence — farm stack standard |
How often to prove restores |
Field telemetry and WAN¶
| Standard | Covers |
|---|---|
Field node identity and naming standard |
Stable IDs, G/R/S/H/W alignment |
Gateway naming and role assignment standard |
RF telemetry vs WAN edge naming |
Site-to-site network role boundaries standard |
SITE_HOME / SITE_FARM, zones, trust |