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

Envoy Gateway v1.7: Global Rate Limiting with a Custom ratelimit Service

How to wire envoyproxy/ratelimit as a self-hosted service into Envoy Gateway v1.7 using EnvoyPatchPolicy — three xDS patches, namespace-admin self-service, and the pitfalls to avoid.

· 10 minutes reading time

haproxy-spoe-rs: Deployment

Deploying the haproxy-spoe-rs SPOA agent in production — container image, podman-compose, Kubernetes, HAProxy configuration, health checking, logging, and systemd.

· 8 minutes reading time