Derron Knox

Hey, I’m Derron

CrashLoopBackOff is just a starting point.

Senior DevOps and SRE engineer with 11+ years building and operating infrastructure at scale — currently focused on government cloud applications, FedRAMP compliance, and the infrastructure patterns that make distributed systems actually reliable.

By day I work on EKS clusters, Aurora PostgreSQL, and multi-account AWS deployments. By night I run a homelab with a 3-node Proxmox cluster (100 vCPUs, 564GB RAM, 61TB storage) that I use to test, learn, and occasionally break things in ways that would be catastrophic in production.

What I Write About

  • Homelab infrastructure — Proxmox, TrueNAS, Kubernetes, networking
  • Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Terragrunt, GitOps patterns
  • Cloud engineering — AWS, EKS, RDS, GovCloud specifics
  • CI/CD — GitLab pipelines, deployment patterns, automation
  • SRE practices — Monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability

The Stack

Crashloop is built with Hugo, deployed via a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to Cloudflare Pages. Posts are written in Markdown and managed in Obsidian — push to main and the pipeline handles the rest.

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