Notes on Infrastructure AI|Cloud|Security|Networking
Field notes and practical guides from Sebastian Maniak — gateways, agents, Kubernetes, and the systems that keep production running.
Running a Headless Pi Coding Agent in a Proxmox LXC, Chatting with It from Telegram, Powered by a Local Model on a DGX Spark
I wanted a coding agent I can reach from my phone, on a model that stays on hardware I control, with no ports forwarded in from the internet. Pi runs in an unprivileged Proxmox LXC. Telegram is the phone client. vLLM on …
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View the full archive →Integration: Front Solo Enterprise for agentgateway standalone with F5 LTM and BIG-IP DNS HA
What we’re building is Solo Enterprise for agentgateway in standalone mode, sitting behind classic BIG-IP LTM in each data center and BIG-IP DNS between …
How To: Run Solo Enterprise for agentgateway as a 3-node HA fleet on GCE
I wanted a three-node HA fleet of Solo Enterprise for agentgateway on GCE: a regional managed instance group, a regional HTTPS load balancer, private VMs, and …
Integration: Deploy Solo Enterprise for agentgateway on Nutanix with HA — NKP, Helm, and PostgreSQL
What we’re building is Solo Enterprise for agentgateway in standalone mode, running on infrastructure you already own: Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) …
Integration: Deploy Solo Enterprise for agentgateway on VMware vSphere with HA — RHEL, systemd, and PostgreSQL
What we’re building is Solo Enterprise for agentgateway in standalone mode, running on infrastructure you already own: RHEL VMs on vSphere, one process …
How To: Deploy Standalone agentgateway on Render — One HTTPS URL for UI, LLM, and MCP
Most of what I’ve written about agentgateway runs on Kubernetes. That’s the right home for it in production. But if you want something fast that …
How To: Per-Key Token Budgets in agentgateway 1.5.0 — Configuring Budgets, Token Costs, and Models
Virtual API keys have always answered two governance questions well: who is calling and which models are they allowed to reach. They never answered the third …