KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: PART 4 - CERT-MANAGER

Last time, we added ingress-nginx to our cluster so that external traffic can hit our services. In this post, we will secure that traffic using TLS.

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KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: PART 3 - INGRESS

Last time, we added automated dependency updates to our cluster. In this post, we will get traffic into our cluster, by setting up an Ingress controller and a load balancer.

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KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: PART 2 - AUTOMATED DEPENDENCY UPDATES

Last time, we set up Cilium and Flux to enable networking and GitOps for our Kubernetes cluster. In this post, we will add automated dependency updates to it.

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KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: PART 1 - CNI & GITOPS

Last time, we left our Cluster in a semi-happy state: The nodes were up, the control plane was available, but we had no cluster network. Today, we will fix that, and a bit more.

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KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: PART 0 - BOOTSTRAPPING THE CLUSTER

First things first, we need some nodes that make up our cluster.

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KUBERNETES HOME LAB IN 2025: INTRODUCTION

The year was 2024, Cyber Monday was rolling by and my manager pointed out that I still had a budget available for training and certifications. One purchase of a Kubestronaut Certification Bundle and a few weeks later, I kinda have to face it: I need a new home lab.

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GETTING STARTED WITH OPEN SOURCE: MAKING MY FIRST CONTRIBUTION TO HUGO.

Lots of people ask for advice on how to get started in open source.

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THE HIDDEN RISKS OF HIGH-QUALITY CODE

Popularized by Google[1][2], Haunted Graveyards are pieces of code that, while providing a business value, are so ancient, obtuse, or complex that no one dares enter them.

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MAKE CHROME GO BRRRRRR....

Everything started with a simple question: “Why does my laptop get hot watching YouTube?”, and led to a rabbit hole of hardware acceleration, Chrome flags, and Intel iGPU monitors.

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GITSIGN IN REMOTE ENVIRONMENTS

After attending SigstoreCon, I got inspired by Priya Wadhwa’s Keynote: Signing Git Commits with Gitsign, to finally set up gitsign for my dev environment. It seemed straightforward enough, right?

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