If you’re still clicking “Save” in a dashboard to route your traffic, you’re not doing DevOps—you’re doing data entry. Here’s how I finally threw away the NPM crutch, embraced the Traefik learning curve, and automated the Cavy-Cloud into a dynamic, label-driven beast.
From Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik: Why I Automated My Reverse Proxy Read More »
Stop leaving your digital keys under the doormat. See why I ditched plain-text .env files for HashiCorp Vault secret injection to build a secure, sovereign DevOps infrastructure.
From .env to HashiCorp Vault: Stop Leaving Your Digital Keys Under the Doormat Read More »
Stop the “CLI Purist” ego trip. Managing a self-hosted stack via browser bookmarks is where productivity goes to die. See why I chose Homarr to bridge the gap between Docker chaos and a centralized, professional dashboard—and why a GUI is actually a sign of DevOps maturity.
Building my Homelab’s Dashboard with Homarr: Putting a GUI on My CLI Obsession Read More »
Documentation isn’t a “boring tax”—it’s an act of empathy for your future self. Discover why I treat documentation as the “save point” of sysadmin life, why the “Why” matters more than the “How,” and how fighting technical entropy is the key to a professional infrastructure.
Writing Documentation is Love: Because Future-Me is a Forgetful Stranger Read More »
Is your Git server eating your VPS alive? Discover why I ditched the GitLab “semi-truck” for the lightweight efficiency of Gitea. A deep dive into why RAM is a scarce resource in a self-hosted empire and why minimalist architecture is the key to a resilient, “OOM-proof” infrastructure.
Gitea vs. GitLab: Why I Refused the “Gas Plant” for my GitOps Read More »
Tired of the “Gilded Cage” of expensive cloud providers? Discover why I moved my infrastructure to Hetzner for total control, financial sanity, and a “No-Nonsense” approach to DevOps. Learn how to ditch vendor lock-in and build a sovereign, portable stack that you actually understand.
Why I Chose Hetzner: Because My Wallet is Not an AWS Charity Read More »
