I Built a $0/Month Enterprise Platform (And You Can Too)
I wanted to run real applications—not toy projects, but actual software I’d use daily. Finance tracking. Job search management. Jupyter notebooks. AI observability for my Claude Code sessions. But I also wanted to do it right. Not “throw it in a Docker container and hope for the best” right. Actually right: Encrypted service-to-service communication Centralized secrets management Automatic failover and recovery Observable, debuggable, maintainable The catch? I didn’t want to pay $50-200/month for a “real” Kubernetes cluster. ...