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@noshmak

Noah Makau

@noshmak·Nairobi, Kenya·Joined May 2026

DevSecOps Engineer, Entrepreneur & Nerd. Kubernetes, Vault & Crossplane at scale. CKA | CKAD | AWS SAP | Founder @ArkilaSystems

About

DevSecOps Engineer, Entrepreneur & Nerd. CKA | CKAD | AWS SAP | SAA | Cloud Practitioner. Building and breaking things with Kubernetes, Vault, Istio & Crossplane at scale. Founder @ArkilaSystems | Preparing for CKS.

Available for

Technical writing and DevOps consulting

Noah Makau's blogs

Noah Makau — DevSecOps & Platform Engineeringblog.arkilasystems.com8 posts

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The Day 2 Reality of Running a Kubernetes Lab on Your Mac: Stop/Start, CKS Scenarios, and What I Learned Building It.

Part 7 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.

10 min read·blog.arkilasystems.com

The Disk-Pressure Incident That Taught Me to Always Set LimitRanges and Other Lessons from Mirroring EKS Locally.

Part 6 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.

8 min read·blog.arkilasystems.com

How I Practise Istio Upgrades Locally Before Touching Production EKS.

Part 5 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.

8 min read·blog.arkilasystems.com

Same Cluster, Different Mac: A Debugging Story About Unprivileged LXC Containers, iptables, and Why Cilium Replaces kube-proxy.

Part 4 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.

12 min read·blog.arkilasystems.com

Building a Production-Grade Vault PKI for a Local kubeadm Cluster Without the Shortcuts.

Part 3 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch.

11 min read·blog.arkilasystems.com

About

DevSecOps Engineer, Entrepreneur & Nerd. CKA | CKAD | AWS SAP | SAA | Cloud Practitioner. Building and breaking things with Kubernetes, Vault, Istio & Crossplane at scale. Founder @ArkilaSystems | Preparing for CKS.

Available for

Technical writing and DevOps consulting

Noah Makau's blogs

Noah Makau — DevSecOps & Platform Engineeringblog.arkilasystems.com8 posts