Running a Debian 13 VM on Fedora 42 with Bridged Networking, Podman, and Minikube

Why This Guide Exists You’re on Fedora 42. You want a Debian 13 VM — not through some GUI wizard, but properly, from the command line, with real bridged networking so the VM sits on your LAN like a first-class citizen. You want cloud-init to set up your users and passwords. And then you want to turn that VM into a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with podman and minikube. Every guide I found either stopped at “install the VM” or assumed you already knew the networking parts. This one doesn’t. It holds your hand from dnf install to kubectl get nodes. ...

May 11, 2026 · 19 min · Sanjay Upadhyay

Pi03: Transparent Router, Content Filter & Personal Cloud

System Role: A high-availability Raspberry Pi 4 hosting a redundant RAID 1 storage array, acting as a transparent router for a LAN subnet, enforcing DNS filtering via AdGuard Home, and serving a Nextcloud instance externally via Cloudflare Tunnels. Host: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (4GB RAM) Hostname: pi03 OS: Debian 12 (Bookworm) Functions: Multi-WAN Router, AdGuard Home DNS Filter, Nextcloud Storage (RAID 1), Cloudflare Tunnel. Date: November 2025 System Architecture & Network Design This system operates as a transparent router for a LAN subnet while hosting secure personal cloud services accessible from the internet. ...

November 23, 2025 · 8 min · Sanjay Upadhyay