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Moving Ceiba to AWS: A Small Deployment on a Real Budget

Ceiba left the homelab for AWS. Notes on the architecture, the $34-a-month budget that shaped every decision, a CI/CD migration that turned out not to be flaky after all, and what I'd already do differently.

CeibaAWSTerraformPlatform EngineeringInfrastructureCI/CDSecurityCost OptimizationFinOps
8 min read
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Running Ceiba on a Single Node First: Platform Boundaries Before Scale

How I’m using a single-node platform to test Ceiba as a real workload, validating runtime, data, backups, and scaling boundaries before moving toward multi-node or cloud infrastructure.

CeibaPlatform EngineeringHomelabInfrastructureNode.jsKubernetesReliabilityAPI ProductizationScalingOperations
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Designing Failure Domains on a Single Node: Boot, Platform, Data, Backup Tiers

How I designed storage and operational boundaries on a single-node homelab to reduce blast radius, improve recoverability, and build platform discipline before workloads.

InfrastructureHomelabPlatform EngineeringReliabilityStorageLinuxFailure DomainsOperations