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Your cluster is not as secure as you think — common K8s security gaps

Default Kubernetes is designed for convenience, not security. Most clusters have the same five gaps, and most teams don't know until something breaks.

Paperless-ngx on Kubernetes — from scanner to searchable archive

Documents go from a network scanner to a classified, searchable archive without manual steps. The entire pipeline runs on Kubernetes, backed by NAS storage.

Running Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi — the real cost and the real lessons

Everyone shows the glamorous kubectl output. Nobody shows the SD card failures, the ARM64 image hunt, or the power draw math. Here's the honest version.

FluxCD vs ArgoCD — an opinionated comparison

Both reconcile. Both work. But they make fundamentally different assumptions about who controls the cluster. Here's why I chose FluxCD.

Your homelab is your best interview

Running production-grade infrastructure at home taught me more about DevOps than any certification prep course. Here's why I think every engineer should try it.

Rico Twesten-Weber

Principal DevOps Engineer. I build platforms that run themselves, and write about DevOps and AI.

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