Kubernetes

This post was originally published at w3rdw.radio, the ham radio blog of Robert White (W3RDW). It is cross-posted here for the WhiteMatter Tech audience. Always-On SDR: Building a Multi-Band Radio Intelligence Platform on Kubernetes I have been quietly building something i am pretty excited about. The idea started simple enough: i wanted a permanent, always-on radio monitor for 2m. It grew into something considerably larger. Today the stack covers 2m, 70cm, and the full HF spectrum from 3–28 MHz simultaneously: recording, decoding, transcribing, and tagging everything it hears, around the clock, with no manual intervention. ...

Setting Up an ADS‑B Flight Tracker with a Cheap Antenna on Kubernetes (RKE2 and ArgoCD) This is the Kubernetes version of my earlier Docker‑based ADS‑B guide. In this setup, everything is defined in YAML and deployed via ArgoCD, and changes are tracked in Git and synced automatically to the cluster. Access is handled through an NGINX Ingress with TLS from cert‑manager, which is how I publish the ADS‑B UI at adsb.w3rdw.radio. If you’re comfortable editing YAML and committing to Git, you’ll feel right at home. ...