Building a Production-Grade MLOps Home Lab on Windows — K8s, LLM, RAG & GitLab CI

TL;DR — I set up a complete MLOps stack on my Windows 11 PC using Multipass + k3s. This is the real guide — including every error I hit and how I fixed it. No fluff, no perfect screenshots. Just what actually worked. Why Build a Home Lab? Cloud bills add up fast when you're learning. A local home lab gives you: Real Kubernetes — not Minikube toy mode Full MLOps stack — MLflow, Minio, Airflow, Ollama, Qdrant CI/CD with GitLab — actual pipelines, not tutorials Zero cost — run...