Networking
- TCP-IP WORKING
- OSI WORKING
- WireGuard WORKING
- NetBird WORKING
- nftables LEARNING
- iptables LEARNING
- Traefik WORKING
- Nginx WORKING
- DNS WORKING
- DHCP WORKING
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DEVOPS / SRE TRACK · BAKINOGOR
Infrastructure
as evidence.
A personal lab and a public log. Builds, deployments, and post-mortems kept in the open — not as a portfolio of finished objects, but as a record of practice in motion.
Containers, orchestration, IaC, observability — written down before they fade, so the next problem starts from somewhere instead of nowhere.
About and stack
About
I.
Operator. Builds and runs systems for the practice of building and running systems. Treats infrastructure as evidence — what was deployed, when, by whom, and what it taught.
II.
The work. Reproducible builds, hardened defaults, no analytics, no telemetry. Self-hosted by preference. Every deploy is a tiny experiment recorded against a hypothesis.
III.
Currently studying. Kubernetes for the homelab, Ansible for repeatability, GitLab CI/CD for the deploy pipeline. Notes go up publicly so the next problem starts from somewhere.
IV.
RITUAL OBJECT of the operator: the runbook. Each incident, each rebuild, each post-mortem leaves a page. The page is read again before the next deploy.
STACK
Toolchain in motion.
Categories below show what's in active use, what's being learned, and what's reached fluency.
Languages
- Python WORKING
- Bash WORKING
- Rust LEARNING
- C++ LEARNING
- TypeScript LEARNING
Docs & Tooling
- LaTeX WORKING
- Typst WORKING
- Markdown WORKING
- Git WORKING
- SSH WORKING
- Tmux WORKING
OS
- Debian WORKING
- NixOS WORKING
- Arch WORKING
Identity & Access
- Zitadel WORKING
- OIDC / SSO WORKING
Containers
- Docker WORKING
- Docker Compose FLUENT
- Kubernetes LEARNING
Automation & IaC
- Ansible LEARNING
- Terraform LEARNING
CI/CD
- GitLab CI/CD LEARNING
Observability
- Prometheus LEARNING
- Grafana LEARNING
- journalctl / htop WORKING
Cloud
- AWS LEARNING
- Google Cloud LEARNING
Projects
PROJECTS
Files in motion.
Each card is a single dossier. LIVE means it's running
somewhere right now, WIP means actively building,
ARCHIVED means done and put away.
PROJ. K-01
ARCHIVEDMinecraft server for a community (2019–2022) — first project
My first real project. Ran from 2019 to 2022, I was 13 to 16. Hosted on a friend's PC that lived in a closet.
- Linux
- Docker Compose
- Nginx
- WireGuard
- +4
PROJ. K-02
LIVEMatrix server — private comms for friends and family (since 2024)
Stood it up in 2024 to talk to a small circle of people — family and friends, with no third-party logs on someone else's servers. I use it...
- Linux
- Synapse
- continuwuity
- PostgreSQL
- +5
PROJ. K-03
LIVENetBird — private mesh into my self-hosted services
A private mesh VPN that I use as the front door to everything I self-host. Nothing on the home side is exposed to the public internet — it...
- NetBird
- WireGuard
- Zitadel
- Traefik
- +3
PROJ. K-04
LIVEThis site — a portfolio I had to figure out from scratch
I'd never built a website before. The most I'd done was HTML on school computer-science classes, and the occasional F12 to edit someone's...
- Astro
- TypeScript
- Zod
- Vitest
- +4
PROJ. K-05
LIVEZitadel — single sign-on for everything I self-host
A self-hosted IAM that acts as the single front door to all of my services. The idea is simple: instead of creating a separate account in...
- Zitadel
- OIDC
- SSO
- Self-hosted IAM
- +2
Learning log
LEARNING LOG
Field log.
Short entries from the practice of building. Each one tagged: reading, build, fail, win. Newest first, grouped by month.
2026 / MAY
Provider-side outage from 07:40 to 16:05 UTC. This site and everything else on that server went down with it — not my code, nothing to fix on my end, just waiting for them to come back.
Roughly eight and a half hours of downtime. A reminder that a single host is a single point of failure.
Brought my own site online. First time I’ve ever shipped a website end-to-end — domain, TLS, CI pipeline, container in production. The build is green and the page is reachable.
2026 / APR
Migrated my Matrix server to continuwuity. Same room, same domain, but cold start in seconds and a fraction of the memory. Synapse retired.
Articles
WRITING
Long-form notes.
Field reports from infra and tooling — typed up when they survive a week without me changing my mind.
Articles coming soon.
Contact
CONTACT
Open channels.
No forms, no trackers. Direct mail or one of the channels below. Replies depend on the season; signal-to-noise stays high.
OBSERVE EVERYTHING — TRUST THE LOGS
- [MAIL]
- coming soon
- [GITHUB]
- @BakinoGor
- [GITLAB]
- @BakinoGor
- [MATRIX]
- @BakinoGor:4anc.net
- [RSS]
- /feed.xml