Ross Golder

Infrastructure / Networking / Kubernetes and more...

Solving Complex Technical Challenges

With over 30 years of experience in network, systems, and software engineering, I help organizations navigate their most challenging technical initiatives. From cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes deployments to system architecture and DevOps implementation, I deliver practical solutions that drive business outcomes.

What I Offer

Strategic Technical Consulting - Transform your technology landscape with proven expertise in cloud platforms, containerization, and modern infrastructure patterns.

Hands-On Implementation - Bridge the gap between strategy and execution with direct involvement in design, development, and deployment of critical systems.

Knowledge Transfer - Empower your teams with best practices, documentation, and training that ensures long-term success and self-sufficiency.

Recent Insights

Explore my latest technical articles covering Kubernetes, cloud architecture, security practices, and emerging technologies. Each piece reflects real-world experience and practical insights gained from decades of hands-on engineering work.

Recent Posts

Azure CLI can't find antlr4 python library

How I solved a missing library problem I faced.

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Dynamic DNS with external-dns

One way to manage a DNS entry that points to a dynamic public IP address.

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Deploying OPNSense to no-name WAN router hardware

My recent experience replacing an older SOHO WAN router running with a newer one

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Grant read-only rights to backup user for PostgreSQL

This one comes up quite regularly, so worthy of note. Whenever an application using Postgres changes or creates tables (i.e. Odoo module updates for example), those tables don’t seem to be …

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Managing Kubernetes certificates with Python

I run into a small stumbling block the other evening while working on my ‘site domain manager’ project (for want of a better name). This is essentially a REST API running in a daemon …

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Testing SMTP creds with Docker

One of our sites stopped sending it’s mail a few days ago. Unfortunately, the SMTP plugin used does not provide any debug logs of the SMTP connection, and it’s ’test’ tool just …

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Monitoring Windows processes from Nagios

So, something I had to do recently was to set up monitoring for a couple of specific Windows processes, so that we get notification via a Discord channel if those processes are not running on various …

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Nginx Ingress access logs to ElasticSearch via syslog

There are several ways to extract the logs from a Kubernetes Nginx Ingress deployment into an ElasticSearch instance. One way I found was to use Elastic Filebeats, but I couldn’t find any really …

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