Practice / Implementation Patterns

Multi-cloud networking architectures, Data sovereignty implementation patterns, Disaster recovery and backup strategies

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Nov 15, 20255 min read

GitOps as Source of Truth: Rebuilding Clusters from Git

Our disaster recovery isn't theoretical—we've tested it. Fresh cluster from Git: OpenTofu provisions infrastructure, Flux bootstraps, under an hour to working cluster. Drift is the enemy.

By Jurg van Vliet
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Nov 12, 20254 min read

SOPS and AGE: Practical Secrets Management in GitOps

Secrets encrypted in Git, per-environment keys, Flux automatic decryption. Our actual implementation: kubeconfig files in project root, SOPS .enc.yaml files, age keys in GitHub secrets.

By Jurg van Vliet
Mar 3, 20268 min read

European Go Proxy for EUR 93 per Month

European Go module proxy across three Scaleway regions (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw) for EUR 93/month. Full engineering teardown: architecture, cost breakdown, decisions made and rejected, and operational numbers from production.

By Jurg van Vliet
Feb 25, 20265 min read

When Atlassian Goes Full SaaS-Monolith, Go Open Source

We are replacing OpsGenie with GoAlert and built a Kubernetes operator for GitOps provisioning and a CLI to make model-based root cause analysis possible. Both are open source.

By Jurg van Vliet
Jun 27, 20243 min read

Building New vs. Transforming Existing Systems

Every organization faces a fundamental choice: build new cloud-native systems from scratch (greenfield) or transform existing systems (brownfield). This choice shapes everything from architecture to team structure.

By Jurg van Vliet
Practice / Implementation Patterns | Clouds of Europe