benjamin@koblenz:~/kybernetik $

Kubernetes,
Containers &
Automation

Experiments, tools and notes on running containerized applications and building reliable deployment workflows.

source git push
build docker build
test run tests
deploy k8s rollout
observe running ✓
Benjamin

What this place is

Hey — I'm Benjamin, 20 years old, currently in my 3rd semester of Computer Science at a university in Koblenz, Germany. This site is my personal lab, not a portfolio polished for recruiters. Just somewhere to document what's being built, broken, and learned alongside my studies.

I got into Kubernetes and containers because I wanted to understand how software actually runs in production — not just how to write it. Most of the content here comes from things I've run into myself: configs that took way too long, setups that finally clicked, concepts that only made sense once I'd deployed them somewhere real.

The focus is on containerized .NET applications, Kubernetes cluster operations, and the CI/CD glue that holds deployments together. Nothing exotic — just a CS student trying to figure out how the infrastructure layer actually works.

~/kybernetik — bash
$ whoami
benjamin // age: 20 // koblenz, de
· semester 3 · kubernetes nerd

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE
k8s-node-01 Ready worker 42d
k8s-node-02 Ready worker 42d
Ready master 42d

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Things I'm building

Nothing here yet — repos and writeups will start showing up as things get built.

projects — status
$ ls ./projects

$ git log --oneline

// working on it. repos will show up here soon.
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What's in the toolbox

The tools that show up in most of the work here.

Kubernetes
container orchestration
🐳
Docker
build & runtime
GitHub Actions
ci/cd pipelines
.NET
application runtime
Helm
k8s package manager
Terraform
infra as code
cluster-overview // namespace: production
INGRESS
nginx-ctrl
API LAYER
api-pod-1
api-pod-2
api-pod-3
WORKERS
worker-1
worker-2
DATA
postgres
redis

Notes & write-ups

No posts yet — a few drafts are in the queue, will publish when they're actually readable.

blog — status
$ ls ./posts

$ cat ./drafts/queue.txt
running .net on kubernetes
understanding k8s deployments
ci/cd for containers

// first posts coming soon. still figuring out what's worth writing.
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Get in touch

I'm Benjamin — a CS student from Koblenz who spends too much free time thinking about container runtimes. If something here was useful, or you're working on similar stuff and want to compare notes, feel free to reach out.

Also happy to hear from other students learning this stuff, or anyone who has opinions on the "right" way to structure Kubernetes manifests (there isn't one, but let's argue about it anyway).