Kubernetes
Istio Service Mesh Architecture – Part1
What a mesh actually solves and when you don’t need one.
October 5, 2026
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Kubernetes
External Connectivity, the Kubernetes-Native Way
Parts 1 and 2 built increasingly good answers to the same question: how do you get an IPsec tunnel out
August 13, 2026
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Kubernetes
Managing IPsec Tunnels with an Operator
Part 1 ended at a wall. The StrongSwan sidecar is a fine answer for one or two tunnels, but every
August 8, 2026
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DevOps
IPsec Out of Kubernetes with StrongSwan
Sooner or later a cluster has to talk to something that isn’t in the cluster — a billing system behind
May 25, 2026
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Networking
HAProxy on Alpine Linux — Lightweight Load Balancing for Talos Kubernetes Clusters
Talos Linux is immutable, API-driven, and purpose-built for Kubernetes — but it ships with no built-in load balancer. The moment
March 2, 2026
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Backup
Traefik Migration from Nginx — The Complete Kubernetes Guide
Nginx was never built for Kubernetes — it was retrofitted. Traefik was built from scratch for dynamic, container-first environments. In
February 25, 2026
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