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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Advanced Secret Management Strategies: HashiCorp Vault, SOPS, and the Kubernetes Ecosystem10 January 2026·4217 words·20 minsKubernetes Vault Sops Security DevOps GitOps
