I want to document for myself and for anyone who might be interested (probably mostly me, but maybe a prospective employer will find this interesting) the current state of my personal ecosystem of software, devops, and what I consider state of the art within my personal projects. This article is primarily concerned with ops, but will touch on aspects of software development too.

I will have to divide this up into major bits. I build a lot of stuff for myself, just in dribs and drabs of spare time I steal from when I probably ought to be sleeping or playing video games. So, this is a list of what I have going and how I make it go. Let’s start by listing the products themselves. Then, I’ll describe the overall architecture of my system. Finally, I’ll break down how each project fits into that architecture.

A year (or probably two now), I converted all of my personal services into a Kubernetes cluster. We’ve been moving toward Kubernetes at work and so I wanted to know how it worked from the inside by building a cluster myself. Part of that hosting work includes hosting a site for the homeschool coop my wife leads, a web site for a weekly “geek lunch”, and also hosting our city mayor’s campaign web site. I’m not an especially huge fan of WordPress, but it does the job as long as you’re careful with it.¹