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21 · Field Notes#

"Not a polished deep-dive; raw reality lived through and jotted down in production."

This section is a different content class from the numbered deep-dives: raw commands, configuration and installation guides left over from real setups. They were deliberately not forced into deep-dive anatomy (epigraph → concept table → anti-pattern → checklist) — their value lies in being "working / having-worked as-is". Adapt them to your own environment and use them.

⚠️ The IP/password/domain values here are examples and must be read with placeholder logic. Never copy your own secrets directly.


🎯 Contents#

Ansible#

File What it covers
System Preparation Pre-k8s inventory + node preparation commands
SSH Connectivity Test Bulk SSH access verification to nodes

Terraform#

File What it covers
Proxmox Full Configuration End-to-end VM provisioning on Proxmox
Creating VMs with Modules Manual Terraform module + VM creation script

System Setup#

File What it covers
Kubernetes Cluster Installation Cluster installation on Proxmox/Ubuntu
Production-Ready Repo Layout Laravel + TS + Flutter + K8s monorepo skeleton
GitHub Actions Pipeline Setup CI/CD pipeline step by step
Inventory Management Example DevOps inventory master template
External Access Solutions External access / port-forward / ingress solutions
DevOps Certification Gates Redirects to the learning path's 3 certification gates (3 gates, not 10)

kubectl#

File What it covers
Logging (ElasticSearch) Cluster log collection notes
Cluster Passwords Script to collect service passwords

Network / SIEM#

File What it covers
Network Segmentation + Wazuh SIEM VLAN segmentation + Wazuh integration

"A field note says what a sterile document won't: what actually broke, and what actually worked."