The Thought Process

A place to think - By Judicaël Poumay (Ph.D.)

Hand-picked for You

Install Longhorn : Highly Available Kubernetes Storage and Disaster Recovery

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

September 10, 2026

Install Longhorn : Highly Available Kubernetes Storage and Disaster Recovery

Learn how to install and configure Longhorn for highly available Kubernetes storage. This guide covers volume migration, snapshots, backups, and disaster recovery.

13 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & InfrastructureAugust 9, 2026

Argo For Kubernetes: From Argo CD to Workflows and Image Updater | A complete Guide

Learn how to build a fully native, end-to-end Argo Ecosystem on Kubernetes. This step-by-step guide covers setting up Argo CD, Argo Workflows, and Argo Image Updater.

22 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & InfrastructureMay 31, 2026

Self-host a Container Registry with Zot on Kubernetes

Learn how to self-host a private, production-ready container registry on K3s using Zot. This guide covers Helm installation, CI/CD integration, image signing with Cosign, and vulnerability scanning with Trivy.

16 min read

Latest Thoughts

DevOps & InfrastructureTutorials

GitHub Actions for CI/CD: A Complete Guide

A comprehensive guide to building continuous integration and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions. Learn how to configure workflows, build container images, and safely automate deployments to Kubernetes.

May 27, 2026

17 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

DDNS and HTTPS Certificates : How to expose a home Kubernetes cluster to the internet

Learn how to expose your home Kubernetes cluster to the public internet. This guide covers setting up Dynamic DNS, router port forwarding, and automatic HTTPS with cert-manager.

May 27, 2026

14 min read

Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

AI Model Distillation: Principles, Methods, Advantages, and Limitations

Knowledge distillation (or model distillation) is an AI compression technique where a smaller, faster model called the 'student model' (Student Model) is trained to reproduce the behavior of a more complex model called the 'teacher model' (Teacher Model).

May 21, 2026

6 min read

Computer ScienceProgrammingSecurity & Privacy

How to Set up Azure SSO in FastAPI with Microsoft Entra ID

Learn how to add Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure AD, SSO to a FastAPI app using MSAL. Includes app registration, login callback, session cookies, protected routes, roles, and common errors.

May 13, 2026

16 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

Deploy a simple application with Kubernetes

Learn how to deploy a basic HTML application to your local Kubernetes cluster. This guide covers building a Docker image, pushing to GitHub Container Registry, and writing essential YAML configurations.

May 5, 2026

6 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

How to install Kubernetes K3s on a Raspberry Pi 5

Learn how to install and configure K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, on a Raspberry Pi 5. This guide covers enabling cgroups, setting up the cluster, and configuring remote access with kubectl.

May 5, 2026

9 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

Install and configure Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 5

Learn how to set up Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 5 to act as a network-wide ad blocker. This guide covers configuring a static IP, installing Pi-Hole, and routing local domains.

May 5, 2026

6 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

Set up a Raspberry Pi 5 with a PoE HAT and an NVMe SSD

Learn how to build a compact, power-efficient homelab server using a Raspberry Pi 5. This guide covers hardware selection, assembling a PoE HAT with an NVMe SSD, and initial boot configuration.

May 5, 2026

5 min read

Home LabTutorialsDevOps & Infrastructure

How to migrate the Raspberry Pi 5 OS to an NVMe SSD

Learn how to manually migrate your Raspberry Pi 5 operating system from a USB stick or SD card to a faster NVMe SSD. This step-by-step guide covers partitioning, copying files, updating boot configurations, and avoiding common pitfalls.

May 5, 2026

7 min read