The Agent That Wrote the Network Policies
One long day turning observed Hubble traffic into reviewed CiliumNetworkPolicies: a Go app that only reads the cluster and only writes to Git, three namespaces in enforce by …
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The Agent That Replaced Kinomap: a Cross-Trainer App in One Afternoon
Kinomap would not connect properly to the tablet on our cross-trainer, so instead of fighting it we wrote our own: a Kotlin/Compose app that speaks Bluetooth FTMS to the machine, a …
An AI SRE on the Lab Cluster: Deploying HolmesGPT and Its Operator With Argo CD
How HolmesGPT and its health-check operator landed on my Talos cluster in one evening: a wrapper chart, an Argo CD app, secrets from OpenBao, LLMs through LiteLLM — and the four …
Talking to a kagent Swarm From IntelliJ, Copilot, Claude Code and WSL
How the kagent swarm on my Talos cluster is wired up today — nine agents, one orchestrator, models through LiteLLM — and how we got every client talking to it in one evening: …
Thread: Building My Own Self-Hosted Kanban Because Nothing Else Fit
I tried every self-hosted kanban board I could find. None of them showed subtasks the way I needed. So I built my own — with an MCP server so my AI agents can manage it too.
Hermes Workspace: Deploying the Web UI for Hermes Agent on Kubernetes
How to build and deploy Hermes Workspace on Kubernetes — including a custom Dockerfile to work around pnpm 10 build script restrictions, a Forgejo Actions pipeline, and an overview …
Self-Hosted AI Agents on Kubernetes: What Works and What Doesn't
OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Hermes Workspace all run on Kubernetes — but not without friction. A honest look at what works, what breaks, and why these tools weren't designed for …
Building a Self-Hosted AI Agent Swarm on Kubernetes with kagent
How I built a multi-agent AI swarm on my Talos Kubernetes cluster using kagent, Ollama, and OpenWebUI — with real Azure DevOps integration.
Deploying Hermes Agent on Kubernetes: A Full Walkthrough
A detailed walkthrough of deploying Hermes Agent on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm — covering security context fixes, dashboard setup, MCP integration, and crafting a custom …
Hermes Agent: Parallel Delegation with Separate Models
How Hermes Agent's delegation system spawns parallel subagents using a separate model — and why routing orchestration and execution through different LLMs makes practical sense.
Jairix — A fully self-hosted AI agent that planned my road trip through Spain
How I built a fully self-hosted AI agent on a consumer laptop — and used it to plan a 45-day camper trip through Luxembourg, France, and Spain, without sending a single byte to an …
From Garage to RustFS: When Good Enough Isn't Enough Anymore
I migrated from MinIO to Garage this week. Now I'm migrating again — this time to RustFS. Here's why, and how I built a proper Helm chart to run it on my Talos cluster.
My Homelab Setup: Network, Bare Metal Kubernetes, and a Ridiculous Desktop
A deep dive into my home setup: a fully wired Gigabit network, a 5-node Talos Linux Kubernetes cluster, dual Synology NAS units, and a desktop build that has absolutely no chill.
Migrating from MinIO to Garage: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
MinIO killed its community edition. Here's how I migrated to Garage on my Talos/K8s homelab cluster.
From Cloud-Native Kubernetes to Bare Metal AI: The OpenClaw Journey
Why I moved my AI agent stack from Kubernetes to a bare metal laptop, what broke along the way, and the 98% success rate that followed. A technical journey through OpenClaw, …
From NGINX Ingress to Traefik: A Forced Migration That Turned Out Better
On November 11, 2025, the Kubernetes community announced the end of Ingress NGINX. The project that had been the de facto standard for routing traffic to Kubernetes workloads for …