DevOps Odyssey
Stories from the trenches of DevOps, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and platform engineering.
All ansible argocd cert-manager cicd dex dns docker email gitops grafana headscale helm kubernetes letsencrypt loki migration monitoring networking observability prometheus scaling sealed-secret sealedsecret tailscale terraform vpn zoho
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 10: From Tailscale Curiosity to a Self-Hosted Headscale Network
Self-hosting a Tailscale-style coordination server with Headscale on my K3s cluster
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 9: The Day My K3s Cluster Disappeared
Outage → rebuild → recoverability
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 8: The Weekend Zero-Downtime Migration — GoDaddy Hosting + Email → K3s + Zoho Mail (aka Zero$Ops?)
Zero$Ops - Goodbye legacy hosting
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 7: Observability on a Budget — Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus on OCI Free Tier
Observability on a Budget
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 6 — Closing the Loop with GitHub Auto-Tagging
Closing the Loop with Auto-Tagging
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 5: Migration of Job Winner and Release of the Photo App
Migration and Photo App Release
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 4: Secrets, GitHub Auth, and Scaling Out
Secrets, GitHub Auth, and Scaling
The DevOps Odyssey, Part 3: GitOps on K3s with Argo CD — Self-Managing Infrastructure from a Single Commit
GitOps on Kubernetes with Argo CD
The DevOps Odyssey Continues: Evolving from Docker to K3s with Ansible
Evolving from Docker to Kubernetes
The DevOps Odyssey: Fully Automating OCI App Deployment with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker
Fully Automating OCI Deployment