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Jorge Andreu

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Building and operating scalable platforms. Writing about Kubernetes, Observability, Platform Engineering, and real-world SRE problems — from production, not tutorials.

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Building a Production-Grade k3s Homelab: HA, Cilium, and MetalLB

Setting up a 6-node Raspberry Pi k3s cluster with high availability control plane, Cilium CNI replacing flannel, and MetalLB for bare-metal load balancing.

Encrypting Kubernetes Secrets with SOPS and Helmfile

How to integrate SOPS with Helmfile and helm-secrets to encrypt Kubernetes secrets using AWS KMS, GCP KMS, or PGP — keeping secrets in Git without exposing them.

Helmfile: Structuring Kubernetes Releases at Scale

How to structure Helmfile for production Kubernetes: modular releases, templated values, environment separation, and dependency ordering.

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Jan 23, 2020
Starting with Spring Boot

In this post we’re going to have different sections, in the first one, as in all beginner courses, we’re going to define Spring, learn how to create a project with Spring Boot and learn what the meaning of the basic class which Spring gives you when you start a project is.

Jan 23, 2020
How to Install Jenkins

In this post I’m going to try to explain what Jenkins is, why we use it, how to install it in Debain and how to use it. Everyone is going to say… oh no! Another boring post about it. I’ll tell them just maybe or maybe not. Find out for yourself.

Jan 23, 2020
How to Install Gitlab on Debian 9

Let’s go with another installation. I’m not really sure about installing GitLab on my server, but I have been thinking a lot about it. I had installed Git which I like, but I tried one years ago and I like it but I haven’t installed it on my server.