Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch vs. Loki vs. Quickwit vs. ClickHouse: Long-Term Log Archiving for 7+ Years

Five-way log archiving comparison: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki, Quickwit, ClickHouse — tiering, compression, query languages, SaaS options. Part 1 of 5.

· 26 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Linkerd: Service Mesh on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio 1.29 (sidecar mode) and Linkerd 2.19: data plane, mTLS, egress, resource overhead, observability, and when to use each.

· 14 minutes reading time

NFS to Object Store Sync with rclone and systemd

Learn how to sync an NFS share to Azure Blob Storage or S3 with rclone. Production hardening, monitoring, and benchmark strategy for large file trees.

· 12 minutes reading time

vigil-log-relay: Kubernetes Log Collection Without a DaemonSet

vigil-log-relay streams logs from Kubernetes pods, HTTP endpoints, or Unix sockets and forwards them as ndjson to any TCP-capable log collector. No DaemonSet, no node-level access, no filesystem mounts — just a single binary with a namespace-scoped ServiceAccount.

· 11 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Envoy Gateway: Gateway API on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio and Envoy Gateway as Gateway API implementations: mTLS, egress, Cilium, managed cloud specifics (AKS, GKE, OVH MKS), and real client IP.

· 19 minutes reading time