humble-jungle — field notes https://humble-jungle.com/#docs Engineering field notes from a private infrastructure lab: Kubernetes, GitOps, self-hosted AI, measured benchmarks, honest post-mortems. en Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:50:16 GMT Case study — an AI that helps run my cluster, safely https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-ai-ops https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-ai-ops Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The autonomous-ops future everyone's predicting for 2027 — running now, and the guardrails that make it trustworthy. Decisions & trade-offs https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-decisions https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-decisions Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The alternatives that were rejected, and why. Judgment, not just output. sitepilot — site-aware placement https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-sitepilot https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-sitepilot Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A custom operator that keeps workloads on the right site once a cluster spans more than one — code-complete and green in tests, not yet deployed to the lab cluster (as of 2026-07-11). Post-mortem — the backup that wasn't https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-recovery https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-recovery Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT My GitOps repo looked perfectly reproducible. One key, held in exactly one place, meant it wasn't. Case study — private AI that keeps your secrets in https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-guardrail https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-guardrail Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A scanner that redacts or blocks secrets before any prompt leaves for a cloud model. The model gateway https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-gateway https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-gateway Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Local and hosted models behind one API — with budgets and blast-radius control. The security posture https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-security https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-security Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Secure-by-default, from the edge headers down to non-root workloads. The live telemetry loop https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-telemetry https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-telemetry Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT How this page shows real numbers from a cluster it doesn't live in. Case study — I had other models review my operator. They were right. https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-operator-review https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-operator-review Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Stress-testing my own Kubernetes controller with adversarial AI, and the bug it caught. How it's delivered https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-delivery https://humble-jungle.com/#fn-delivery Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT GitOps end to end — declarative, reviewable, reversible.