Evolving from linux freak to devops and cloud-native engineer
I just finished a deeply hands-on networking course that took me from basic IP fundamentals all the way to building a BGP‑driven spine‑leaf fabric with containerlab and Nokia SR Linux. What started as “let’s recall how IP and routing work” ended with me automating data‑center‑style topologies and understanding why this architecture is the de‑facto standard … Read more
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.