Evolving from linux freak to devops and cloud-native engineer
Over the last weekend I worked through a hands‑on Kubernetes fundamentals module and rebuilt everything in my own homelab, from simple pods all the way to Helm‑based monitoring with the kube‑prometheus‑stack. The goal was not just to “get it running”, but to really understand how the core building blocks of a Kubernetes platform fit together … Read more
When you work close to complex application data, you eventually run into one of those situations: something is clearly wrong, but the underlying structure is only partly familiar. You know the bug is somewhere in the library, somewhere in the database, somewhere behind a layer of abstractions — but finding the right object quickly is … Read more
Proxmox VE, built on Debian, may suffer from package bloat when used with desktop environments and productivity tools. To revert to a pure Proxmox hypervisor, users should back up configurations, purge unnecessary applications like LibreOffice and KDE, clean up configuration remnants, and autoremove orphaned dependencies, ensuring Proxmox remains intact.
In retail environments, especially in the mid-2000s, shared Windows terminals were a staple of day-to-day operations. At an auto parts store, four shared point-of-sale PCs were used by rotating sales staff—all logged in with a general Windows account for simplicity. However, employees sometimes needed access to their own private home directories from these shared systems. … Read more
Back in 2010, telephony systems often required a practical solution for delivering music on hold. Professional hardware and software components could be costly or inflexible, but for those comfortable with Linux, simple shell scripts offered an adaptable alternative. The following blog post explores a classic Bash script that continuously feeds a telephone system with MP3 … Read more