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GitLab Runner on Kubernetes - Pod-Per-Job CI/CD diagram
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GitLab Runner on Kubernetes - Pod-Per-Job CI/CD

Running self-hosted GitLab Runner on Kubernetes with the Kubernetes executor, External Secrets for token management, and proper security hardening.

Alerting Done Right - Grafana, Crossplane, and Discord Notifications diagram
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#kubernetes#alerting#grafana#discord#crossplane#homelab#observability

Alerting Done Right - Grafana, Crossplane, and Discord Notifications

Part 4 of my observability series: Managing alerts as code with Crossplane, routing to Discord, and the alerts that actually matter for a homelab.

Distributed Tracing - Istio, OpenTelemetry, and Tempo diagram
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#kubernetes#tracing#istio#tempo#homelab#observability

Distributed Tracing - Istio, OpenTelemetry, and Tempo

Part 3 of my observability series: How distributed traces flow from Istio through OpenTelemetry to Tempo, and why 100% sampling makes sense for a homelab.

Metrics Collection - From Kafka JMX to Kubernetes Events diagram
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#kubernetes#prometheus#metrics#kafka#postgresql#homelab#observability#grafana

Metrics Collection - From Kafka JMX to Kubernetes Events

Part 2 of my observability series: Setting up metrics exporters for Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis, plus cluster-wide monitoring with Grafana's k8s-monitoring.

The LGTM All-in-One Stack - Unified Observability for Homelabs diagram
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#kubernetes#observability#grafana#loki#tempo#prometheus#homelab

The LGTM All-in-One Stack - Unified Observability for Homelabs

Part 1 of my observability series: How a single container provides logs, metrics, traces, and profiling for a homelab Kubernetes cluster.

Service Mesh Adventures - Cilium, Istio Ambient, and the Ztunnel Saga diagram
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#kubernetes#istio#cilium#service-mesh#homelab#gateway-api

Service Mesh Adventures - Cilium, Istio Ambient, and the Ztunnel Saga

Part 4 of my homelab series: Running Cilium and Istio together, the ztunnel certificate nightmare, and hard-won lessons about service mesh on a single node.

GitOps All The Things - ArgoCD and the App-of-Apps Pattern diagram
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#kubernetes#argocd#gitops#homelab#opentofu

GitOps All The Things - ArgoCD and the App-of-Apps Pattern

Part 3 of my homelab series: How ArgoCD's app-of-apps pattern manages 30+ applications with automatic sync and self-healing.

From Zero to K3s - Bootstrap Scripts and Time Sync Nightmares diagram
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#kubernetes#k3s#homelab#cilium#devops

From Zero to K3s - Bootstrap Scripts and Time Sync Nightmares

Part 2 of my homelab series: Building an idempotent bootstrap script for K3s, and the VM time sync issue that broke everything.

The Great WSL Escape - Why My Homelab Runs in a Hyper-V VM diagram
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#kubernetes#homelab#wsl#hyper-v#networking

The Great WSL Escape - Why My Homelab Runs in a Hyper-V VM

Part 1 of my homelab series: Why running Kubernetes in WSL didn't work out and how Hyper-V with mirrored networking saved the day.

Vibe Coding with Claude: The Joy and Pain of Building Without a Blueprint diagram
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#claude#ai#architecture#tauri#lessons-learned#vibe-coding#wsl-ui

Vibe Coding with Claude: The Joy and Pain of Building Without a Blueprint

How I built a complete desktop app in hours with AI-assisted development, what went wrong as it grew, and what I'd do differently next time.