Migrating to Talos Linux
How I migrated my clusters to Talos Linux — the mindset shift, the step-by-step, and a deep storage chapter on ditching Longhorn for Rook Ceph to fix flaky RWX.
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Talos vs RKE2: An Honest, Hands-On Comparison
I ran RKE2, then moved to Talos. A hands-on Talos vs RKE2 comparison: the layer they each solve, where each wins, how Rancher fits, and how to choose.
Agents as Pets: An Experiment
Most AI agent runners treat each agent as disposable cattle. I built Vinculum in a weekend to explore the opposite end of the spectrum: stateful agents you treat like pets.
Argo ApplicationSets Are Easy. Making Your App Deployable Is Not.
Per-PR preview environments with Argo CD ApplicationSets are the easy part. The hard part is making your app actually deployable on its own — the work an agent can't do for you.
Setting Up EBS Storage in Your AWS EKS Cluster: A Quick Guide (Because I Tend to Forget)
A no-fluff reference for wiring up EBS storage on AWS EKS — install the CSI driver, set the IAM permissions, and make EBS the default storage class.
How Talos Won My Heart (and My Clusters)
From RKE2 with Rancher to K3s to Talos Linux: my Kubernetes journey, and why an immutable, API-driven, minimal OS finally won over me and all my clusters.
Kubernetes Operators: Streamlining Complexity in the Cloud-Native World
Kubernetes Operators package operational knowledge into software, automating the lifecycle of complex, stateful applications through Custom Resource Definitions. Here's how they work.