Notes
Lab Notes: XPU Manager 2.0 finally lets me delete my custom image
A short lab note on replacing my custom Intel XPU Manager deployment with the upstream XPUMD 2.0 Helm chart and image.
June 24, 2026
Kleym: Intro to creating SPIFFE workload identity from inference intent
A personal technical note on building Kleym, a Kubernetes operator that maps inference resources to deterministic SPIFFE identity registration.
June 5, 2026
Lab Notes: Why llm-d pushed me out of Ingress (and into agentgateway)
A lab note on moving Kubernetes inference routing from Ingress to Gateway API and agentgateway after llm-d made scheduling part of request routing.
April 14, 2026
Lab Notes: Intel AI Inference Platform MVP 2 with llm-d
A lab note on adding llm-d to a Kubernetes inference stack so vLLM replicas can be routed by inference-aware scheduling instead of plain Service load balancing.
December 8, 2025
Lab Notes: Intel AI Inference Platform MVP
A lab note on building a Kubernetes inference MVP with Intel Arc GPUs, vLLM, DRA, ModelKits, Harbor, OpenWebUI, Prometheus, and FluxCD.
September 18, 2025
Lab Notes: Laying the Cluster Foundation
In the first part of this series, I walked through the hardware choices and the initial setup of my Intel-powered homelab. With the machines successfully doing their best to keep optimal temps this summer, it was time to document the first big step - scaffolding the cluster
August 11, 2025
Lab Notes: Assembling an Intel-Powered Lab
This is the first in a technical series documenting the creation of an Intel-only homelab for MLOps and Kubernetes experimentation. In this part: why I’m doing this, and how the setup looks.
May 24, 2025
wrigo
A short note on writing Wrigo, a small Go CLI that generates Hugo post front matter instead of relying on shell scripts.
September 4, 2023
init
Opening note for the Sonda Red archive before the site became a technical notebook for Kubernetes and infrastructure lab work.
July 17, 2023