Just a math guy lost in the IT world

MireCloud Series — Part 1 I Was kubectl apply -ing Everything. Here's How I Stopped. Building MireCloud — the right way, from the ground up. EC Emmanuel Catin Senior Platform Engineer · CKA Vault ESO cert-manager ArgoCD Cilium I have a confession. For months, my homelab was held together with notes, memory, and hope. Keycloak was running. Grafana was up. GitLab was accessible. But if you asked me why something worked, half the time the honest answer was: "because I ran some commands six weeks ago and I haven't touched it since." Passwords lived in a notes file. Certificates were generated once with OpenSSL and forgotten until they expired. Secrets were committed to Git — sometimes as plaintext, sometimes base64-encoded, which is the same thing with extra steps. Every rebuild started ...