notes
from the
field.
practical notes on kubernetes and platform engineering from real client work - closer to a runbook than a think piece.
- 06
managing dotfiles with stow
gnu stow turns a directory of dotfiles into symlinks placed in the right spots, replacing brittle install scripts with plain directory structure.
- 05
preview environments with argocd
argocd applicationsets can generate a full preview environment for every open pull request and remove it automatically once the pull request closes.
- 04
terminal multiplexing with tmux
tmux keeps terminal sessions alive across disconnects and splits them into panes and windows, replacing a pile of manually tiled terminal tabs.
- 03
postgres on kubernetes with cloudnativepg
cloudnativepg is a kubernetes operator built for postgresql that handles replication, failover, backups, and monitoring through custom resources.
- 02
policy as code with kyverno
kyverno enforces security standards, injects defaults, and generates resources in kubernetes using plain yaml policies instead of a new language.