Michele Bologna
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Michele Bologna is a Senior Engineering Manager at SUSE working on Rancher, writing about Kubernetes, GitOps, edge computing, and engineering leadership. Personal site and blog running since 2007.
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Why I close SSH port 22 entirely (and what I use instead)
Most SSH hardening guides stop at key-only auth and fail2ban . That helps, but if your machine has a public IP, port 22 is still open to the internet. Every automated scanner can probe it and get a response: the SSH version string, the banner, proof that
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From WordPress to Hugo and Cloudflare Pages
This website has been running on WordPress since 2007. For most of that time it lived on a self-managed VPS (first on DigitalOcean , then moved to Hetzner in 202...
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Encrypt an existing Linux installation with zero downtime (LUKS on LVM)
During a periodic review of my machine's security posture, I realized my Linux installation was running without full disk encryption . Reinstalling to add encryption wasn't an option: I needed a way to encrypt in place, while continuing to use the machine
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Scaling to 100k Users: notes on Alex Pareto's architecture walkthrough
Scaling to 100k Users by Alex Pareto is one of the better introductory resources on web application scaling. It's concise, concrete, and walks through the progression in a logical order: single server, separate database, caching, load balancing, CDN, read
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How a Terraform + Salt + Kubernetes GitOps infrastructure enabled a zero downtime hosting provider switch
Updated 2026: The infrastructure described here (Kubernetes + Terraform + Salt on Hetzner) has since been replaced. This site now runs on Hugo deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The lessons about Phoenix Servers and zero-downtime DNS switching still apply; I'v
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