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Build Your First MCP Server: Give Claude Superpowers Over Your Homelab
Learn how to build a custom MCP server in Python that lets Claude directly query your Kubernetes cluster, check running containers, and manage your homelab. No more copy-pasting terminal output.
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Learn how to build a custom MCP server in Python that lets Claude directly query your Kubernetes cluster, check running containers, and manage your homelab. No more copy-pasting terminal output.
A thinking tool to catch bad platform decisions before they cost 6 months of engineering time
You don't need a 200-person engineering org to benefit from an internal developer platform. Here's how I set up Port.io, Terraform, SonarCloud, and Jira for Herp Ops, a SaaS I build alone.
Collect, store, and query Kubernetes logs using Loki with MinIO object storage and Grafana.
How to set up free, reliable alerting for your homelab using Prometheus Alertmanager and Discord webhooks.
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