Sigil Gate Project Blog

The concept behind Architecture 2.0.

Architecture 2.0 is taking shape — time to build. First component: a Kubernetes management cluster. But before any logic or services, there’s one question that comes first: security.

Breaking down what was wrong with the old architecture and how I redesigned it: from a tree to two independent clusters, zero trust, one domain per cluster, and Docker-based onboarding.

How I got hacked, had my CI/CD taken down, and had tokens vacuumed across the entire core cluster — in fifteen minutes.

Someone hinted that storing Telegram IDs in plaintext is not a great idea. I fixed it. Here’s how — and why it turned out trickier than expected.

The project is still closed — but I’ve started bringing in new participants. Here’s how the collaboration works and where it’s all heading.

Last autumn I lost my VPN. A story about the patterns that kill services, the arms race between regulators and protocols — and why all of it is ultimately about people.

Why a private network is first and foremost a social structure, how it grows from the bottom up, and why freedom of communication should be a norm — not a privilege.

Bot fixed, Habr conquered, personal site under construction, Rustlings resurrected. How do I manage it all? I don’t.

Infrastructure up, bot running — and then it turns out it can’t do anything. The cost of overly tidy containerization.