https://blog.thalamus.am/page/Recent content in Pages on ThalamusHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThalamus TMhttps://blog.thalamus.am/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/about/<p>Hi friend, I&rsquo;m Karén.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m a Principal Platform &amp; DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect with over 17 years of hands-on experience designing, scaling, and operating critical infrastructure. My focus centers on Kubernetes platform design, GitOps continuous delivery, cloud architecture, PKI hierarchies, and production reliability.</p> <h2 id="why-thalamus">Why Thalamus? </h2><p>In neuroanatomy, the <strong>thalamus</strong> (from Greek <em>θάλαμος</em>, &ldquo;inner chamber&rdquo;) is the large mass of gray matter situated in the dorsal part of the diencephalon. It acts as the brain&rsquo;s primary relay hub—processing, filtering, and directing sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex.</p>https://blog.thalamus.am/archives/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/archives/https://blog.thalamus.am/privacy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/privacy/<p>This is a static personal publication. It currently has no account system, analytics scripts, advertising pixels, or comment service.</p> <h2 id="preferences-on-your-device">Preferences on your device </h2><p>The color theme and animation preference are saved in your browser&rsquo;s local storage. These preferences are not sent to an analytics service. Search runs in your browser using a locally served article index.</p> <h2 id="external-content">External content </h2><p>Video placeholders do not contact YouTube until you choose to load a video. Loading a video connects to YouTube&rsquo;s privacy-enhanced embed service, which has its own data practices. You can also follow the link to watch directly on YouTube.</p>https://blog.thalamus.am/search/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/search/https://blog.thalamus.am/work-with-me/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/work-with-me/<p>I work with engineering teams through <strong>Thalamus</strong>, providing architecture reviews, infrastructure advisory, and technical implementation.</p> <p>Explore <a class="link" href="https://thalamus.am/#services" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Thalamus services</a> for infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and secure AI tools implementation, or <a class="link" href="https://thalamus.am/#contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >start a conversation</a>.</p> <h2 id="advisory-areas">Advisory Areas </h2><h3 id="1-platform--kubernetes-architecture-review">1. Platform &amp; Kubernetes Architecture Review </h3><ul> <li>Cluster topology evaluation (control plane redundancy, node sizing, network fabric).</li> <li>On-premise bare-metal setups (kubeadm, MetalLB, Calico) versus managed cloud (AWS EKS).</li> <li>Storage architectures, ingress controllers, and workload isolation policies.</li> </ul> <h3 id="2-delivery-pipelines--gitops-migration">2. Delivery Pipelines &amp; GitOps Migration </h3><ul> <li>Declarative delivery systems (ArgoCD / Flux) and artifact management.</li> <li>Multi-environment promotion strategies, immutable release tagging, and rollout safety.</li> <li>Secret management and least-privilege automation credentials.</li> </ul> <h3 id="3-pki-hierarchy--tls-hardening">3. PKI Hierarchy &amp; TLS Hardening </h3><ul> <li>Private Certificate Authority hierarchy design (offline root CA, intermediate issuing CAs via CFSSL).</li> <li>Automated certificate rotation, mutual TLS (mTLS), and ingress termination.</li> </ul> <h2 id="how-to-connect">How to Connect </h2><p>If you would like to discuss an architecture assessment or advisory engagement:</p>