I'm Igor. This is where I write about what I actually build — production systems, homelab experiments, and the tools I pick up along the way. Twenty years in infrastructure, the last few spent hands-on with cloud, edge, security and AI.
Here I post about the things I'm building — for production, as proofs of concept, and for learning and tinkering across my homelab and edge cloud platforms.
A declarative diagnostic agent for the lab's K3s cluster, built with kagent and MCP — health-check, diagnose and heal from one command. Prompt engineering cut token use by 75% (46K → 12K). Shared at MCP_HACK//26.
Read the write-up →A proof of concept testing whether edge compute can deliver a reliable, secure and highly performant API for e-bike telemetry processing and autonomous decision loops.
View the API →A full-stack app built entirely on edge compute — running on Cloudflare compute and protected by a WAF — that turns a photo of a UK parking charge notice into a ready-to-send appeal letter. In production since October 2025.
Visit appealify.uk →Moving routing off the classic Nginx Ingress Controller to Gateway API and Traefik — clearer, future-proof route definitions ahead of the controller's retirement in March 2026.
Read the note →Publishing services to *.igorbond.info through an outbound-only tunnel with Zero Trust Access policies — nothing on the router is exposed to the internet.
Read the note →Running Proxmox VE on the MacMini node for workloads that live outside the cluster — VMs and LXC containers alongside K3s.
Read the note →An etcd quorum across two Intel NUCs and a MacMini — the production-grade core the rest of the lab runs on.
Read the note →Certified: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · SAFe 6 POPM · PRINCE2 7 Foundation