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Certificate governance without the ceremony: cert-manager + Venafi on k3s

December 2022 — because PKI shouldn’t require a JIRA ticket and three approvals

There’s a version of certificate management that lives in large enterprises. You file a request. A team reviews it. Someone checks a compliance box. Five days later, a certificate lands in your inbox as a .pfx file. You paste it into a UI. Two weeks from now it expires and nobody notices until a monitoring alert fires at 2am.

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Building a quiet NAS: the part nobody writes about is the vibration

February 2021 — on the noise that comes from spinning rust and how to stop it from travelling

Every NAS build guide covers the same things: which board, which drives, which OS, how many watts. They cover RAID levels, ZFS recordsizes, network throughput. They benchmark transfer speeds and idle power.