01 / ME

Me

Senior DevOps Engineer in Munich, 25+ years near the metal: Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC.

Off the clock I am a dad and a lifelong nerd: I play D&D and indie games, and write the occasional grimdark, horror-leaning short story.

This page is mine to ramble on. More to come.

02 / KIT

What I run

My daily driver, the homelab, and the tools that keep it running.

Workstation

  • ThinkPad
  • CachyOS
  • Hyprland

Terminal & editor

  • Ghostty
  • zsh
  • LazyVim

Homelab

  • Repurposed HP mini PCs from eBay
  • Bare-metal Kubernetes with k3s
  • Proxmox for VMs

Infrastructure

  • Terraform + Ansible
  • Argo CD for GitOps
  • Sealed Secrets

Storage & backups

  • Synology NAS: 4 x 18 TB for "linux ISOs"
  • Longhorn for persistent storage
  • Velero for Kubernetes backups

Monitoring

  • Prometheus + Grafana
  • Loki + Alloy for logs
  • Alertmanager