Morten Victor Nordbye
Platform engineer. Homelab enthusiast. I write about Kubernetes, infrastructure, and making things work.
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Fixing My Prompts: What the Claude Architect Exam Taught Me
What studying for the Claude Certified Architect exam taught me about everyday prompting, from few-shot examples and XML tags to fresh-chat review.
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Headroom: The Private Finance Overview School Never Gave You
A self-hosted Norwegian finance tracker. Equity after tax, ten years of salary against CPI, what you cost your employer, the month, and a fifteen year forecast.

Tuning Azure WAF Without Paying Log Analytics Prices
Azure WAF false positives are painful to tune and expensive to analyse in Log Analytics. lawless-waf queries the archived logs on your laptop with DuckDB and hands you the Terraform exclusion.

Seeing Into a Talos Cluster: The Observability Stack I Actually Run
Metrics, logs, traces and runtime security on a Talos Kubernetes cluster: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana and Falco, wired into one dashboard.

Locking Down Your Cluster: Rolling Out Cilium Network Policies Without Breaking Everything
Rolling out CiliumNetworkPolicies on Kubernetes without breaking traffic. Start in audit mode with Hubble, move to default-deny, and dodge the gotchas.

Surviving the NGINX Ingress EOL: A Zero-Downtime Migration to Traefik
ingress-nginx is reaching end of life. A zero-downtime migration to Traefik and the Gateway API on Kubernetes, with the cutover plan and pitfalls to avoid.