Why I moved from Cilium L2 announcements to BGP for LoadBalancer IP advertisement, and how a dedicated Services VLAN simplified everything.
Why I deployed a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner and Cloudflare Pages to serve JSON schemas extracted from my cluster's CRDs, eliminating dependency on third-party schema hosts.
Why etcd fragments over time and how to reclaim disk space with talosctl etcd defrag.
How I migrated my Kubernetes PVC backups from Restic to Kopia with a 3-2-1 backup strategy: hourly NFS backups for fast restores, plus daily cloud backups to Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare R2 for disaster recovery.
Why I moved every Flux Kustomization into its target namespace, the challenges with substituteFrom, and how strategic patching made it work.
How I replaced per-app Tailscale ingresses with a single Connector and Split DNS for same-URL-everywhere remote access
How I configured Model Context Protocol servers to give Claude Code superpowers over my Kubernetes cluster
What I broke, how I wiped everything, and the steps I'm using to bootstrap Talos + Flux again.
Setting up the offical Tesla Fleet Addon for Home-Assistant with Kubernetes
Rolling out Ollama in Kubernetes with shared storage and Open-WebUI