Terraforming the Cloud: Provisioning and Configuring Vault on Hetzner via Terraform and Ansible12 April 2026·4140 words·20 minsInfrastructure DevOps Architecture Hetzner Vault Podman Tailscale Ansible S3 Backup Disaster Recovery Devops Infrastructure Crisp Architecture
Recursive memory, compact context: the missing piece for working well with AI agents10 April 2026·2560 words·13 minsAI Architecture Productivity Ai Agents Memory Context-Management Workflow Devops Productivity Architecture
A quieter infrastructure session than usual: when design reduces chaos9 April 2026·2249 words·11 minsInfrastructure DevOps Architecture Hetzner Tailscale Ansible Terraform Devops Llm Automation Infrastructure Architecture
Golden image runtime on Hetzner: the path to the final version7 April 2026·1225 words·6 minsInfrastructure DevOps Hetzner Golden-Image Ansible Devops Automation Infrastructure Linux Testing
LushyCorp Vault on Hetzner: security-driven architectural choices4 April 2026·1460 words·7 minsInfrastructure Security DevOps Hetzner Vault Ansible Tailscale Security Architecture Devops S3
Cloud Free and the Harsh Reality: Lushy Corp's Pivot to Hetzner30 March 2026·1108 words·6 minsInfrastructure Security Hetzner VPS OCI Vault Tailscale Devops Homelab
Tailscale: The Secure Backbone of TazLab's Rebirth24 March 2026·1406 words·7 minsTailscale Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code Tazpod Security Networking Zero Trust Devops OAuth Automation
Zero Credentials on Disk: Rewriting TazPod with AWS IAM Identity Center22 March 2026·2261 words·11 minsAws Iam-Identity-Center Sso S3 Devops Tazpod Secrets Management Golang Docker Ci-Cd Github-Actions Security
Bootstrap from Zero: Rebuilding Everything from a Single S3 Bucket20 March 2026·1317 words·7 minsKubernetes HashiCorp Vault Oracle Cloud Tailscale Security Secrets Management Talos OS S3 Bootstrap Infisical Terragrunt
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
Man in the Loop: Reflections on Using AI Agents to Build Infrastructure18 March 2026·2317 words·11 minsAi Kubernetes Devops Cloud AI Agents Pi.dev OpenRouter Workflow
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
AGENTS.ctx: Context Management for AI Agents Without Re-Explaining Everything13 March 2026·1022 words·5 minsAi Devops Context-Management Agents Workflow Productivity
Pi.Dev: Minimal Agent Architecture for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem9 March 2026·2806 words·14 minsAi Devops Kubernetes Cloud-Native Agents Architecture Developer Tools
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
Phoenix Protocol V2: Enterprise Security, Parallelism, and the 8-Minute Milestone25 February 2026·1571 words·8 minsInfrastructure DevSecOps Kubernetes Devops Security Zero Trust Fluxcd Automation Terragrunt Disaster Recovery Reliability Infisical
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
Phoenix Protocol: Validating Zero-Touch Rebirth and the S3 PITR Hell10 February 2026·1488 words·7 minsInfrastructure Reliability Engineering Kubernetes Devops Security Zero Trust Postgresql S3-Backup Disaster Recovery Automation Terragrunt Longhorn
TazPod v2.0: Surrendering to Root and the RAM Revolution6 February 2026·1302 words·7 minsEngineering Security Go Security Docker Zero Trust Devops Cryptography Post-Mortem Linux
Nomadic Rebirth: Towards the Cloud Horizon and the Castle's Evolution5 February 2026Infrastructure Strategy Kubernetes Terragrunt Postgresql S3-Backup Longhorn Automation Mnemosyne Vectordb
Mnemosyne: Local Rebirth, the Recursive Loop, and the SNR Challenge2 February 2026Infrastructure Data Engineering Kubernetes Mnemosyne Mcp Vectordb Ai Knowledge-Management Postgresql Pgvector
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
Mnemosyne: Agent's Long-Term Memory and AlloyDB Integration31 January 2026Infrastructure AI Kubernetes Mnemosyne Mcp Vectordb Ai Knowledge-Management Postgresql Alloydb
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 Foundations of Accessibility: Traefik, Cert-Manager, and the Castle's Philosophical Pivot30 January 2026·1355 words·7 minsInfrastructure Security Kubernetes Traefik Cert-Manager Terraform Devops Security Letsencrypt
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
TazPod Rising: From DevPod Ashes to a Go-Powered Zero Trust CLI20 January 2026·1388 words·7 minsDevops Go Security Docker Zero Trust Open Source Linux Namespaces
DevPod's Swan Song: The Clash Between Automation and Zero Trust Security14 January 2026·1781 words·9 minsDevops Security Docker Devpod Luks Infisical Troubleshooting
The Immutable Workshop: Architecture of a 'Golden Image' DevPod Environment for Kubernetes Orchestration12 January 2026·1812 words·9 minsKubernetes Devpod Docker Devops Productivity Automation
From Persistence to Resilience: Orchestrating Longhorn Backups on AWS S3 in a Talos Linux Environment7 January 2026·1638 words·8 minsKubernetes Longhorn Aws-S3 Backup Talos-Linux Disaster Recovery
Migrating a Hugo Blog to Kubernetes6 January 2026·1062 words·5 minsKubernetes Hugo Migration Longhorn Traefik Homelab
From HostNetwork Chaos to MetalLB Elegance4 January 2026·1139 words·6 minsKubernetes Metallb Traefik Networking Homelab
Lab Chronicles: Building Persistence with Longhorn and Talos2 January 2026·1452 words·7 minsKubernetes Longhorn Storage Talos-Linux Homelab
Lab Chronicles: Native VIP on Talos and Traefik Ingress30 December 2025·1242 words·6 minsKubernetes Talos-Linux Traefik Homelab Networking
Hugo Installation Details21 December 2025·238 words·2 minsHugo Docker Docker-Compose Blog Web-Development