Infrastructure and networking engineer based in Norway. I write about homelab projects, Kubernetes, self-hosted tooling, and the occasional LAN party.

2026

• 10 Sep Chat-ops Test 01: Sandboxed Read-only Bot

  Sharkbot is a Mattermost chat bot used by a network operations team. It answers questions in a channel by looking things up in read-only systems: a ticketing system, a...

• 29 May Kubernetes Test 02: AKS, Gateway API, and Full Observability

  A follow-up to Kubernetes Test 01 , this time on Azure Kubernetes Service with a production-closer stack: Gateway API ingress, automatic TLS, a full observability suit...

• 26 Feb Lanmine 41: 10G Party

  The Original Plan Originally, We had designed a comprehensive infrastructure stack for Lanmine 41 built on Proxmox and Kubernetes. The architecture was ambitious and f...

2025

• 04 Dec Kubernetes Test 01: Simple Deployment & Configuration Walkthrough

  A test project for Kubernetes deployments and configurations. Step 1: Install kubectl To manage your Kubernetes cluster, the kubectl CLI is required. Download and inst...

• 04 Nov Recording and Sharing Terminal Sessions with Asciinema

  View on Asciinema Asciinema is an open-source tool for recording and sharing terminal sessions. Instead of heavy video files, it saves text-based replays that can be p...

• 28 Aug Simple Packet Inspection with AI/LLM

  Why I Started I wanted to see how far a large-language model (LLM) could take me when I’m trying to understand raw network traffic. Two ideas popped up in my mind: Exp...

• 15 Mar Setting up Errbot with Mattermost

  I recently experimented with Errbot , a Python-based chatbot framework that supports multiple chat backends including Slack, Discord, and Mattermost. I wanted to see h...

2024

• 14 Jul Useful Cisco Commands for Network Administration (IOS and NX-OS)

  As a network engineer, working with Cisco devices requires familiarity with both IOS and NX-OS commands. This guide covers essential commands that every network admini...

• 12 Feb Automated iperf3 Reports to GitHub Pages

  I was curious about automating markdown reports using data I had gathered. Iperf3 is an excellent tool for conducting network performance tests, especially for Wi-Fi c...

• 01 Jan Setting up Local LLM with Ollama and Open WebUI

  Open WebUI + Ollama is pretty cool and easy to set up. Prepare Ubuntu In this example I used a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS install. sudo apt update ... sudo apt upgrade ......