Systems Across Domains
Why cross-domain systems understanding matters, and a library of system-domain notes.
What It Is
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform for managing distributed systems. On this site, it is part of the practical toolset behind building systems that are easier to understand, operate, and repeat.
Learn more: https://kubernetes.io/docs/
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration.
What I Learned About Centralized TLS With ACME and Traefik
A cleaner control-plane pattern for TLS: one ACME issuer, shared certificate state, and stateless Traefik edge nodes.
Helm
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes applications.
Kubernetes systems
Container orchestration platforms schedule workloads, manage service discovery, and enforce desired state across clusters of compute resources.
Praxis — The Magnolia Homelab
A 4-node Proxmox cluster running Kubernetes, Ceph, site-to-site VPNs to AWS, GitOps pipelines, and a full observability stack — built to test every architecture I recommend to clients.
Quantified Self
The quantified self interests me as a way of observing patterns in a life that would otherwise blur together.
Van Power Issue
Diagnosed and fixed an electrical fault in the van by tracing wiring and testing circuits — a small project that illustrates how the same diagnostic thinking applies to a Kubernetes cluster and a 12-volt system alike.