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What OPA Gatekeeper is, the six policies now enforced on the cluster that runs jithendar.com, what the first audit found, and how I plan to tighten them.
11 min read
How my k3s cluster gets a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate with cert-manager and Cloudflare DNS-01, and how it renews with no manual step.
9 min read
How Let's Encrypt issues free TLS certificates: the ACME flow, HTTP-01 vs DNS-01, rate limits, staging, and the move from 90-day to 45-day certificates.
8 min read
How I test the retrieval behind Ask the Blog: a labelled question set, a manual GitHub Actions workflow with the production model, and the settings it decided.
13 min read
How I run jithendar.com on minikube with EKS-style patterns: Istio gateway and STRICT mTLS, CrewAI flows with human review, and PR-tagged releases.
14 min read
100 Indian AI startups to watch in 2026, from Sarvam and Neysa to voice agents, AI infra, healthcare and robotics, with one line on what each does.
12 min read
Ansible explained in plain language through a real repository that sets up eight servers for an online shop, with 11 draw.io diagrams. No coding needed.
25 min read
Eight areas where engineering teams make the decisions that matter most right now.
Systems the editor has built, and how they work.
MOKS investigates production problems with live Kubernetes, Prometheus and Loki evidence, keeping observed facts apart from suspected causes.
5 min read
How this site works - Next.js on Minikube with PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloudflare R2, built-in admin, audit log, encrypted backups and full observability.
10 min read
A polyglot microservices store - TypeScript, Python, Java - with an AI shopping assistant, MCP tools and full observability, deployed with Argo CD.
1 min read
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