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Notes from running Kubernetes where it's hardest — on your own hardware, behind an air gap, with no room to improvise. Write-ups of talks, migrations, and the things that only show up in production.

  1. ·12 min readCNCF Vienna Meetup

    Immutable, Minimal, Mighty: Running Kubernetes on Bare Metal with Talos

    The companion writeup to my CNCF Vienna talk: what happens when you apply Kubernetes' own design principles to the operating system underneath it — plus the full GitOps demo that runs on one laptop, and every trap I hit building it.

    TalosBare MetalKubernetesGitOpsFlux
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