Archive

2026  26

April  2

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