We’ve been building Convergence across four parts: nautobot as the source of truth, OpenTelemetry as the collection pipeline, VictoriaMetrics and Loki for storage, Grafana for visualization, and th...
Welcome back to the “Building Convergence” series! If you’ve been following along, Part 1 laid out the big-picture vision: nautobot as the golden source of truth, OpenTelemetry collecting everythin...
Welcome back to the “Building Convergence” series! In Part 1, we outlined the vision: nautobot as the single source of truth, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) as the telemetry hub, and a suite of open-source t...
Welcome back. If you followed along with Part 1, you already know the high-level vision: observability-first, nautobot as the single source of truth, OpenTelemetry Collector as the central telemetr...
TL;DR: Convergence is an open-source, AI-driven network automation platform built with a monitoring-first mindset. I’m vibe coding the whole project using AI agents and prompt-based iteration to co...
TL;DR: My main server file had grown to 2,426 lines. I used Claude Code to refactor it into clean modules, cutting 600 lines while keeping everything working in production. The Problem: When One...
TL;DR: The provisioning pipeline from Part 4 works great when everything goes right. This post is about the equally important code that runs when everything goes wrong. Last week was about the h...
TL;DR: No VM is created, resized, or modified until Stripe confirms payment. Everything else in the code exists to enforce that rule. Last week was about access boundaries — how users reach thei...
TL;DR: This platform gives users full SSH and console access to their lab VMs without ever exposing Proxmox, public IPs, or the underlying infrastructure. In Part 2, I laid out the architecture ...
In Part 1, I talked about why I built this platform. Not because I wanted to compete with hyperscalers — but because cloud KVM pricing simply doesn’t make sense when you want labs that stay up for...