Blog - Turing Pi

June 11, 2026

K3s vs K0s vs MicroK8s vs RKE2: Which Lightweight Kubernetes Fits an ARM Homelab?

The lightweight Kubernetes ecosystem has matured to the point where ARM homelab builders have several credible options. K3s, K0s, MicroK8s, and RKE2 all support ARM64, all run on RK3588 hardware, and all promise a simpler experience than a traditional kubeadm deployment. What they do not offer is the same trade-off profile. Most comparisons focus on […]

June 9, 2026

Immich on Turing Pi 2.5: Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative on ARM64 with NVMe Storage

Google Photos gives you 15GB free. After that, every additional gigabyte becomes a recurring subscription. If you’re looking for a self-hosted Google Photos alternative, there is a better option: run Immich on the Turing Pi 2.5 cluster you already own, automatically back up every photo from your phone, and keep your entire library under your […]

June 6, 2026

Self-Hosted Personal Cloud on Turing Pi 2.5: NVMe Storage, Samba, and Nextcloud on ARM64

Self-hosted personal cloud platforms let you store, sync, and access your files from anywhere without paying monthly subscription fees or relying on third-party infrastructure. Services like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive are convenient, but they come with storage limits, recurring costs, and limited control over where your data lives. If you’re already running a […]

June 4, 2026

ARM Compute Module Buyer’s Guide 2026: RK1 vs CM5 vs Jetson Orin Nano vs Orange Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5 Plus

You’ve decided to build an ARM cluster. Maybe you want to run k3s. Maybe you’re consolidating a handful of Raspberry Pis under your desk into something more intentional. You’ve done the reading, watched the YouTube videos, compared benchmark charts, and somehow ended up more confused than when you started. The Raspberry Pi CM5 is the […]

June 1, 2026

Whisper.cpp and Piper TTS on Turing Pi 2.5: Offline Speech Recognition and Voice Synthesis on ARM64

Cloud speech APIs have a cost. They also have a latency floor you cannot control, a privacy implication you cannot eliminate, and a dependency you cannot remove. Every audio file you send to a third-party service leaves your infrastructure permanently. Running voice processing locally solves all of that. You own the recordings, the transcripts, the […]

May 29, 2026

Home Assistant on Turing Pi 2.5: Self-Hosted Smart Home on ARM64

An 8GB RK1 node can comfortably handle Home Assistant alongside Pi-hole, Tailscale, Mosquitto, Portainer, and Uptime Kuma while still maintaining the low power profile expected from ARM infrastructure. That is the real appeal of running Home Assistant on Turing Pi 2.5 hardware: the RK3588 has enough headroom to consolidate several self-hosted stacks onto a single […]

May 25, 2026

Ansible on Turing Pi 2.5: Automate Your RK1 Cluster with Infrastructure-as-Code

Every time you install a package on one node, you SSH into the next and repeat the same steps manually. Rebuilding a failed node means retracing commands from memory, while configurations slowly drift between machines until no two nodes are exactly alike. That is the operational reality of managing a multi-node homelab cluster without automation. […]

May 21, 2026

Pi-hole + Tailscale on Turing Pi 2.5: Network-Wide Ad Blocking and Private Remote Access on ARM

Ad blocking on your home network works well until you leave the house. Pi-hole filters DNS queries for devices on your local network, but that filtering disappears the moment a phone or laptop switches to a different network at a coffee shop, airport, or hotel. Tailscale solves this by creating a private mesh network between […]

May 10, 2026

Everything You Can Self-Host on Turing Pi 2.5: The Complete ARM Homelab Stack Guide (2026)

After the cluster is running, the next question is usually straightforward: what should actually run on it? Turing Pi 2.5 self-hosted apps now cover a far broader range of workloads than earlier ARM homelab systems realistically supported. The RK1 compute modules provide a low-power, always-on ARM64 platform capable of handling storage services, media servers, development […]

May 9, 2026

Incus on Turing Pi 2.5: ARM VM & Container Setup for Homelabs

Most homelab virtualization platforms were built primarily for x86. Proxmox VE is officially x86-only, while ARM support in platforms like VMware ESXi and Hyper-V remains limited, experimental, or outside typical homelab deployment patterns. If you have a Turing Pi 2.5 with RK1 compute modules and want proper service isolation, the practical option is Incus on […]