Sharing notes from my ongoing learning journey — what I build, break and understand along the way.
From Basic Routing to NGFW: Securing a Hyper-V Lab with Sophos Firewall Cybersecurity labs are constantly evolving. I recently decided that the standard router server managing the “firmennetz” (corporate network) traffic on my Hyper-V setup was no longer meeting my…
From GitOps to MLOps: Deploying a Real-Time AI Monitor In my previous post, I discussed how I built a 100% autonomous, self-managing cloud infrastructure (GitOps) for the PactNote project. After laying such a solid foundation, I wanted to test this…
The GitOps Revolution: Achieving Zero Downtime with ArgoCD Welcome! In the first article of our series, I explained step-by-step how we spun up a 3-node Kubernetes (K3s) cluster from scratch on Hyper-V using Terraform, and how we injected our enterprise…
Building a One-Click Enterprise Kubernetes Infrastructure for Disaster Recovery Welcome! Today, I will be sharing the behind-the-scenes of our “One-Click Infrastructure & App Deployment” project—a project that didn’t just remain a theoretical concept, but one where we truly got our…
From Bare Metal to GitOps: Architecting a Modern Kubernetes Cluster for PactNote Behind every great software project lies an invisible hero: Infrastructure. When starting a new project, many of us tend to open our code editors right away and focus…
Building a Private Intranet Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide to Apache2, MariaDB, and Nextcloud Hello everyone! In this post, I will share my adventure of building a fully-fledged web server from scratch in a “Remote Lab” environment. Our goal is not…
Building an Air-Gapped Automated Backup System with TrueNAS and iSCSI We live in a digital world, and whether we are a massive corporation or a small startup, our most valuable asset is our “data.” It has happened to all of…
Building a Company’s Digital Heart: A Guide to Enterprise Server Infrastructure from Scratch In today’s digitized world, a company’s success isn’t just measured by the product it sells, but by the robustness of the technological infrastructure supporting it. As a…
How to Build a Real-Time Industrial SCADA System using Python and KEPServerEX In the era of Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation, the biggest challenge for factories is making machines that speak dozens of different languages on the shop floor (Siemens…
Zero Downtime: Architecting a 50-User Engineering IT Setup from Scratch Sometimes I ask myself, “If a company came to me like this, how would I build the most accurate and secure IT infrastructure for them from scratch, without any limitations?”…