The cluster that almost wasn't
Stage 1 of Ship Boring Lab: building a two-node Kubernetes cluster from scratch, debugging SSH, cloned VM identities, Ansible edge cases, and the failures hiding underneath the automation.
Engineering, in practice
Build systems. Learn what breaks.
Notes, experiments, and projects across DevOps and platform engineering. Follow the build, the failures, and the thinking behind the fix.
- Infrastructure
- Delivery
- Platform engineering
Ship Boring
Build · Break · Operate
Roadmap · Planned
A release you can trace
Argo CD and Kustomize for GitOps; Kyverno policies and Argo Rollouts for controlled promotion across environments.
From the workbench
Engineering stories and small discoveries from the work.
Build, Break & Operate — a Ship Boring build-in-public series
The manifesto: why the best infrastructure is boring, why in-house tooling deserves a public rebuild, and the five rules this series will not break.
"Already compliant" is a success state
An Ansible task should succeed when the machine is already in the desired state.
Project / learning workspace
Focused Study Workspace
Certification study packs and engineering learning paths, with focused bites, labs, revision, and personal notes. Start with Terraform Associate 004 or Linux foundations.
- Guided learning
- Hands-on labs
- Practice & revision
Project / career toolkit
DevPersonify
A browser-based tool that reviews your public GitHub work and helps you prepare a portfolio and job application documents.
- GitHub audit
- Career evidence
- Profile README
- Résumé studio