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Hermes Agent on Proxmox LXC: Pet vs Cattle for PVC-like Persistence15 May 2026·1443 words·7 minsProxmox LXC Terraform Ansible Hermes LVM-Thin Storage Persistence
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Terraforming the Cloud: My First IaC on OCI20 March 2026·1687 words·8 minsTerraform Terragrunt Oracle Cloud Talos-Linux Kubernetes Iac Devops Arm64 Infrastructure-as-Code
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
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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
Baptism by Fire: Resilience, Deadlock, and Disaster Recovery in the TazLab Cluster26 January 2026·1369 words·7 minsKubernetes Talos Longhorn Traefik Terraform Disaster Recovery Devops
The Ephemeral Castle: Towards a Nomadic and Zero Trust Infrastructure25 January 2026·688 words·4 minsKubernetes Gitops Terraform Flux Tazpod Security Digital Nomad
From Craftsmanship to Infrastructure: Chronicle of the Introduction of Terraform in Tazlab24 January 2026·1544 words·8 minsTerraform Proxmox Iac Kubernetes Talos
