Our waste collection schedules are locked behind PDFs and a proprietary app that doesn’t allow exporting. I used GenAI to transform the visual calendar into ICS files ready for import into Outlook, Google Calendar, and the likes.
In January I published a short rundown of the major changes since 2020. This post is the follow-up.The architecture started with a Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX120 S3 and matured when the Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2530 M2 (1U, dual CPU) became the primary hypervisor. After that, everything accelerated Talos nodes, GPU passthrough, a new hypervisor class, and a deployment model that finally scales.Reflecting on…
If you’re using Vault’s root token for daily operations, you’re doing it wrong. I was too. Then I accidentally committed my .vault-token file to Gitlab.
After launching Platform One in July with 6 applications across 3 VMs, my centralized backup strategy immediately broke. Stackback couldn’t discover volumes across different Docker Compose contexts.
Cloudflare Tunnels enabled external access from behind Carrier Grade NAT or Dual-Stack Lite. Moving DNS from Route53 to Cloudflare was the logical next step.
After three years of manually provisioning VMs through ssh and adjusting docker-compose files on the hosts, I finally committed to Infrastructure as Code. April 1, 2024: First commit to the infrastructure repository.
Due to Covid-19 I took on the task to build something new and exciting. It was time to rebuild and extend services i’m hosting in my local network. As a quick premise: Everything i’m running locally is only exposed to clients within the same network.