May 23 · 12 min read · Most home labs are a patchwork of one-off scripts. A Bash file here, a manual docker compose up there, and a README note that says "run this first." It works until it doesn't. When something breaks at
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May 13 · 13 min read · The problem with Polling Every network operations team is familiar with the scenario: a ticket arrives at 3 a.m. indicating a BGP session has been down for 45 minutes. The monitoring system, checking
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May 10 · 3 min read · By default, Kubernetes Pods are "stateless." If a Pod dies, any data saved inside its container is lost forever. For databases or file uploads, this is a nightmare. Today, we solve this by diving into
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May 8 · 13 min read · Every time I pushed to GitHub, the ritual was the same: SSH into the server, git pull, restart the process (hoping the port was free), and pray nothing broke. Logs were scattered, rollbacks were manua
Join discussionMay 3 · 7 min read · Look — I’ve been there. Late Friday night. Again. Me, staring at three Ubuntu servers, manually editing Nginx configs over SSH because “it’s just a quick change.” Spoiler: it never is. I remember the time I spent two hours debugging why one server wa...
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May 2 · 3 min read · Build and deploy the latest open-vm-tools from source with Ansible and Docker If you run Linux VMs on VMware, you've probably hit this: your distro ships an open-vm-tools version that's 1-2 years behind upstream. That matters when you need guest OS c...
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