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Adopting an existing Helm release under ArgoCD on a live Kubernetes cluster, plus the Hubble TLS drift problem that surfaces along the way.

Adding Datadog to a homelab for resume reasons turned into a cascade of platform hygiene work I'd been overlooking

Building an AI-powered runbook generator that also gave me a reason to actually configure Prometheus alerting on the homelab cluster.

Containerizing a Next.js app and setting up a full GitOps CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, GHCR, and ArgoCD — running alongside the existing AWS Amplify deployment.

Setting up ArgoCD for GitOps, migrating from Flannel to Cilium, and wiring up Gateway API with cert-manager and Let's Encrypt for real HTTPS on a homelab Kubernetes cluster.

Deploying the kube-prometheus-stack on a homelab Kubernetes cluster, exposing Grafana remotely over Tailscale, and a swap gotcha that took down the cluster after a reboot.

Setting up KVM virtualization and a three-node Kubernetes cluster on a Dell micro PC — the decisions, the why, and the gotchas.

The technical decisions behind this portfolio — Next.js, MDX, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify — and why each one made sense.