Archive

2026 ³⁷

May ⁵

Backup Strategy for Your Homelab: The 3-2-1 Rule in Practice

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Terminal Multiplexing: tmux vs Zellij vs Screen

May 14, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Tailscale for Homelab: Secure Remote Access Without Port Forwarding

May 10, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Building an Internal Developer Platform: Where to Start

May 6, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Grafana Dashboards That Actually Get Used

May 2, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

April ⁸

Chaos Engineering: Breaking Your Cluster to Make It Stronger

April 28, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

K3s Cluster Setup on Refurbished Mini-PCs

April 24, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph: Kubernetes Storage Compared

April 20, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Quantum-safe GPG identity with multiple aliases

April 18, 2026 · 12 min read · Tom Meurs

Alerting That Works: From Alert Fatigue to Actionable Notifications

April 16, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

cert-manager: Automatic TLS Certificates in Kubernetes

April 12, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Cilium Deep Dive: eBPF Networking for Kubernetes

April 8, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Distributed Tracing with Tempo and OpenTelemetry

April 4, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

March ⁸

Loki for Kubernetes Logging: The Prometheus-Like Approach

March 31, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Thanos Remote Write: Push-Based Metrics for Edge and Multi-Cluster

March 27, 2026 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

Declarative Infrastructure as Compliance Documentation: Talos, NixOS, and Audit-Ready Systems

March 23, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

NixOS as a Hypervisor: KVM and QEMU Can Do Everything

March 19, 2026 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

NixOS vs Talos for Kubernetes Nodes: Two Flavors of Immutable Infrastructure

March 15, 2026 · 9 min read · Tom Meurs

Talos Linux: The Immutable Kubernetes OS That Changed How I Think About Nodes

March 11, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

The Lost Art of Software Optimization: What Demoscene Taught Us About Sustainability

March 7, 2026 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

Arch vs NixOS as a Workstation: Professional and Personal Use

March 3, 2026 · 9 min read · Tom Meurs

February ⁸

CTF and Forensics Skills That Make You a Better DevOps Engineer

February 27, 2026 · 9 min read · Tom Meurs

Simulation, Emulation, Virtualization, and Containers: The Restaurant Metaphor

February 23, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Zero Trust Explained: The Hotel Key Card Metaphor

February 19, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Learn the Defaults: Why Portability Beats Customization

February 15, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Dotfile Management with mise and chezmoi: The Perfect Combo

February 11, 2026 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

Data-Driven Kubernetes Migration: Why You Need Metrics Before You Move

February 8, 2026 · 10 min read · Tom Meurs

K8sGPT with a Local 70B Model on Apple Silicon

February 5, 2026 · 9 min read · Tom Meurs

Why Privacy Matters More Than Ever

February 2, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

January ⁸

The Hardware Ownership Paradox: When Sovereignty Gets Expensive

January 30, 2026 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

Self-Hosting for Everyone: A Vision for Digital Agency

January 27, 2026 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

The space container thought experiment: systems thinking for survival

January 20, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

When not to use Kubernetes

January 17, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

YubiKey + Pass + GPG + SSH: One Key to Rule Them All

January 13, 2026 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Pass: the Unix password manager that just works

January 10, 2026 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

GPG explained: from first key to daily use

January 6, 2026 · 9 min read · Tom Meurs

Taskwarrior, Timewarrior and Vit: The Ultimate CLI Productivity Stack

January 3, 2026 · 12 min read · Tom Meurs

2025 ²³

December ³

Why I self-host everything: on sovereignty, agency and control

December 30, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Working with an AuDHD brain: why I automate everything

December 27, 2025 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

Unbreakable - my fascination.

December 23, 2025 · 3 min read · Tom Meurs

August ³

Prometheus and Thanos: Metrics at Scale

August 31, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Kubernetes RBAC: Least Privilege in Practice

August 19, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Runtime Security with Falco: Detect Suspicious Behavior in Your Cluster

August 7, 2025 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

July ³

SPIFFE and SPIRE: Zero Trust Service Identity

July 26, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Kyverno Policies: Governance as Code for Kubernetes

July 14, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Vault for Beginners: Secrets Management in Kubernetes

July 2, 2025 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

June ²

Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts: Canary and Blue-Green Deployments

June 20, 2025 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs

Container Image Scanning with Trivy in Your CI Pipeline

June 8, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

May ³

Automating Semantic Versioning with GitLab CI

May 27, 2025 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

GitLab CI for Kubernetes: From Commit to Deployment

May 15, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

Drift Detection with ArgoCD: How to Know If Your Cluster Is Still in Sync

May 3, 2025 · 5 min read · Tom Meurs

April ²

App-of-Apps Pattern in ArgoCD: Scalable GitOps Architecture

April 21, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

GitOps Disaster Recovery: Rebuilding Your Cluster from Git

April 9, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

March ³

ArgoCD vs Flux: When to Choose What

March 28, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

ArgoCD for Beginners: Your First GitOps Deployment

March 16, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Running Kubernetes Offline: Edge Computing Without Internet

March 4, 2025 · 7 min read · Tom Meurs

February ²

Graceful Degradation in Kubernetes: What Happens When Components Fail

February 20, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Kubernetes Network Policies: A Visual Guide to Pod Security

February 8, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

January ²

etcd Deep Dive: The Heart of Your Kubernetes Cluster

January 27, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

Kubernetes High Availability: Stacked vs External etcd Explained

January 15, 2025 · 6 min read · Tom Meurs

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