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Rommel Porras
Rommel Porras

Rommel Porras

Philippines
DevOps Consultant from the Philippines. I build platforms, run SRE, and maintain a homelab that has more monitoring than my own health. Powered by coffee and poor decisions.
19
Feb

Alerting That Actually Wakes You Up: Discord, Email, and Dead Man's Switches

9 min read
12
Feb

The Modern Logging Stack: Loki + Alloy (Why Not Promtail)

8 min read
12
Feb

Distributed Storage with Longhorn: 2 Replicas Are Enough

8 min read
12
Feb

Gateway API vs Ingress: No Ingress Controller Needed

10 min read
11
Feb

Cilium Deep Dive: What Replacing kube-proxy Actually Means

8 min read
10
Feb

HA Control Plane with kube-vip: No Load Balancer Needed

9 min read
07
Feb

Why kubeadm Over k3s, RKE2, and Talos in 2026

6 min read