This is the workshop
This is where I architect an idea and then build it for real. Bare metal, Kubernetes, the security work that has to ship with the feature. The decisions. The lab limits. The night something broke.
If I cannot explain it, I do not own it yet.
Right now the live ones are AIForge and HostKid. Both are still moving. I add pages as the work grows, not when it is finished.
Architect the idea
The problem, the constraints, the boxes. Before a single command.
Build it in the lab
Stand it up on real hardware. CPU, k3s, the limits I actually have.
Write the decisions down
What I picked, what broke, and the path through the docs.
AIForge
Production AI infrastructure as an internal developer platform. Kubernetes, LLM serving, RAG, multi tenancy, observability, security and cost, built and documented end to end on a real cluster.
Open it →
DockerIOS
Two operators, two repositories, one problem. DockerIOS is the KubeVirt and x86 line: learning, and guarding Intel Macs after Apple leaves them. MacRack is the commercial line: Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon, inside the licence.
dockerios · macrack · macos
HostKid
Why I started HostKid. from SysOps pain and ProxGen on Proxmox to a CloudStack-based hosting company documented as a living handbook.
mini-hostpapa · cloudstack · proxmox
Initial APM setup with SigNoz
Bootstrapping a test Kubernetes cluster and deploying SigNoz for APM and infrastructure observability.
Vendor Agnostic Surveillance
Introduction to the Vendor Agnostic Surveillance project - A real-world case study of building a cloud-controlled video platform for distributed IP cameras
surveillance · video-platform · kerberos
Why this Bazel reference exists
Why I used the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop as a serious Bazel learning lab, what changed in the migration, and which services make this repo a deep polyglot reference.
bazel · bazel-learning · monorepo
What you will find in each one
Same shape, even when the topic changes.
- Why it exists. The problem I kept watching, not a fake use case.
- How the boxes connect. Architecture you can follow, with the tradeoffs I actually made.
- How I stood it up. Lab steps, commands, the boring parts that make it real.
- What went wrong. The failures are the useful bit. I leave them in.
AIForge and HostKid are the ones I am still building. The rest of the shelf is here too. I share the work while it is still alive.
Pick a card. Land on the first page. If a page feels long, it is because the real work was long.