Consolidating Cluster Bootstrap and Eliminating Ansible from the Rebirth Cycle7 June 2026·2342 words·11 minsKubernetes HashiCorp Vault Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Vault Secrets Operator Flux Gitops Talos Proxmox Postgresql PGO
Cluster Consolidation and Reducing Bootstrap Tokens to One4 June 2026·1567 words·8 minsKubernetes HashiCorp Vault Terraform Flux Gitops Secrets Management External Secrets Operator Vault Secrets Operator Reloader
When the Plan Isn't Enough: Deploying the Tailscale Operator on Talos8 May 2026·1717 words·9 minsKubernetes Talos OS Flux Tailscale Gitops DNS Crisp Design Review Home Lab
GitOps for Knowledge: turning a project wiki into an operational surface25 April 2026·3124 words·15 minsDevOps Architecture AI Wiki Gitops Hugo Flux Kubernetes Agents Documentation LLM Knowledge-Base Devops Context-Management
The Bridge to Vault: Tailscale, Talos, and the Art of One-Shot Rebirth in Kubernetes19 April 2026·2661 words·13 minsInfrastructure DevOps Architecture Kubernetes Talos Tailscale Vault Gitops Flux Postgres Longhorn Disaster Recovery Devops
TazLab Roadmap: HashiCorp Vault and Oracle Cloud17 March 2026·946 words·5 minsKubernetes HashiCorp Vault Oracle Cloud Tailscale Security Secrets Management Talos OS Gitops
SDD in half a day: a context with rules, and the cluster DAG fixed on the first attempt15 March 2026·1969 words·10 minsInfrastructure DevOps Kubernetes Flux Gitops Agents Context-Management Sdd Devops Workflow
A mature cluster: automated deploys, agent contexts, and the Mnemosyne MCP migration14 March 2026·1359 words·7 minsInfrastructure DevOps Kubernetes Gitops Flux Mcp Mnemosyne Agents Context-Management Ci-Cd
Enterprise Monitoring in a Home Lab: The (Uphill) Road to Stateless Grafana and Prometheus4 March 2026·1270 words·6 minsKubernetes Prometheus Grafana Postgresql Monitoring Gitops Fluxcd Homelab Devops
From Zero to OIDC: A Journey Through Zero Trust Authentication in Our Kubernetes Cluster28 February 2026·3571 words·17 minsKubernetes Dex Oauth2 Oidc Traefik Zero-Trust Gitops Flux External-Secrets
Mnemosyne Rebirth: Chronicle of a Sovereign Memory (and how I collided with the MCP protocol)22 February 2026·1674 words·8 minsMcp Go Kubernetes Gitops Flux AI
The Castle's Orchestra: The Pivot to Terragrunt and the War on Race Conditions2 February 2026·1519 words·8 minsInfrastructure Design Patterns Kubernetes Terragrunt Terraform Fluxcd Devops Proxmox Automation Gitops
The Immutable Handover: Terraform, Flux, and the Birth of the Castle Factory1 February 2026·1703 words·8 minsInfrastructure Design Patterns Kubernetes Terraform Fluxcd Gitops Automation Devops Security Infisical
Rise of the Fortress: High Availability, Immutability, and the Birth of a Serious Cluster31 January 2026·1457 words·7 minsInfrastructure Architecture Kubernetes Ha Gitops Terraform Traefik Infisical Nginx Docker Devops
The Fortress Walls: Implementing Zero-Trust Security and Secret Management29 January 2026·1568 words·8 minsInfrastructure Security Kubernetes Security Infisical Terraform Talos Gitops Devops External-Secrets
From Vision to Silicon: Implementing the Ephemeral Castle on Proxmox28 January 2026·1277 words·6 minsInfrastructure Tutorials Kubernetes Terraform Proxmox Talos Gitops Devops Longhorn Flux
The Ephemeral Castle: Towards a Nomadic and Zero Trust Infrastructure25 January 2026·688 words·4 minsKubernetes Gitops Terraform Flux Tazpod Security Digital Nomad
Advanced Secret Management Strategies: HashiCorp Vault, SOPS, and the Kubernetes Ecosystem10 January 2026·4217 words·20 minsKubernetes Vault Sops Security Devops Gitops
