This is the working documentation for devata, a Talos Kubernetes cluster being grown from a box that runs into a real, GitOps-managed platform. Each article here is a walkthrough you follow on your own cluster, not a reference you skim. The aim is that after reading one you can explain the thing because you traced it yourself, often by reproducing it in a throwaway cluster you are free to break.
Every article opens with a short prerequisites table. If a concept there is unfamiliar, follow the link and read that note first, then come back. The links form one connected map rather than a pile of separate posts.
Foundations
- kubernetes pins down just enough vocabulary (cluster, control plane, nodes, pods, Services, namespaces, kubectl) for the rest of the vault to lean on without stopping to define terms.
Networking
- going-cilium-only traces a single request across devata to find where kube-proxy would normally sit, then has you stand up a disposable kind cluster to watch kube-proxy do its job and watch routing die when you remove it.
More sections (GPU, observability, GitOps, and a running journal) land here as their first articles are written.