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A personal blog focused on software, technology, and the cloud. Sharing what I'm working with at home — what broke, what stayed up, and what I learned getting it there.

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· 7 min · Homelab / Kubernetes
Deploy Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes with Argo CD to collect container logs, the systemd journal, and cluster events into Loki.
· 5 min · Homelab / Logging
Run Fluent Bit on a 32-bit Raspberry Pi to tail Docker json-file logs without the socket and push them to Grafana Loki.
· 5 min · Command Line
A simple way to track shell, Git, SSH, and other configuration files with a private bare Git repository.
· 9 min · Homelab / Kubernetes
Use External Secrets Operator with Bitwarden Secrets Manager to sync managed secrets into Kubernetes without committing secret values to Git.
· 10 min · Homelab / Kubernetes
Use cert-manager, Route 53 DNS-01 validation, and Reflector to renew and distribute wildcard TLS certificates across Kubernetes namespaces.
· 5 min · AI / Software Development
I created a Go app to poll Home assistant and store sensor data in a database.

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