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kubernetes

Architectural cross-section of a three-layer stack — declare deck with role-stamped plates, derived inventory gallery routing them, cluster bay where they self-assemble

February 2026

Roles All the Way Down

platform-engineering ansible terraform proxmox kubernetes homelab-platform

The roles declared in Terraform were designed to feed Ansible. Ansible was built to stand up k3s. This is how a three-node cluster assembles itself from a single playbook run.

Architectural cross-section of a three-tier building — underground vault with sealed blast doors, lone monitoring bridge, and four alarm klaxons routed to separate channels

June 2026

Observing What You've Built: Secrets, Alerting, and Blast Radius

platform-engineering kubernetes prometheus grafana gitlab secrets-management observability homelab-platform

Scoped CI/CD secrets, Prometheus and Grafana on k3s, and four alert rules routed by audience and urgency: how a self-hosted platform limits blast radius without an SRE team to page.

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