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ASUS ships no API, no SNMP, no metrics endpoint. I SSH into the routers on every scrape cycle and pull it all myself — proc files, wl commands, and hidden SQLite databases — into Prometheus and Grafana.
In the last post, I glossed over one detail that deserved more than a paragraph: building my own Talos images for the CM5. I mentioned talos-builder, dropped a GitHub link, and moved on. This post is me coming back to actually explain what that thing does and why it exists.
I already run cloudflared in my cluster — all external access flows through a Cloudflare tunnel. What I didn’t have was a clean way to publish new applications to that tunnel and apply my existing Access policies to them without clicking through the Cloudflare dashboard every time. This operator fix
I run OpenShift clusters at work, so when it came to my home lab I wanted something closer to that CoreOS experience. Here's how I ended up running Talos Linux on eight Raspberry Pi Compute Modules across two DeskPi Super6C boards — with NVMe boot, custom CM5 images, and this very blog hosted on the
The last night of the trip we made it count. Brutto is one of those restaurants you keep hearing about from people who live in Panama City — the kind of place locals are slightly possessive of, where the food is inventive without being pretentious about it. It sits on the
Tucked away on the ocean deck of the JW Marriott Panama — the striking tower that most people still call the former Trump Ocean Club — La Vespa Vista Mare is one of those restaurants you stumble into and immediately wish you'd known about sooner. With sweeping views over the
One morning we decided to stop pretending we were roughing it and had breakfast at the Waldorf Astoria. The hotel sits right on the edge of Punta Paitilla, steps from Balboa Avenue where it runs along the bay, and Brio Brasserie — their French and American brasserie on the ground floor
