One Ollama Endpoint, Two Very Different Backends

Introduction Nine namespaces in my cluster send work to a local language model. The SDR research stack tags transcriptions, the politics dashboard summarises feeds, the congressional-trade tracker prepares daily summaries, and several agents submit work throughout the day. They all call one stable hostname on port 11434. Behind it are two very different Ollama deployments. The primary is an RTX 5090 in a desktop tower that I deliberately power down at intervals. The fallback is an NVIDIA GB10 Spark board, where CPU and GPU share memory and GPU allocations count against the pod’s memory limit. The repository also contains a CPU-only manifest, although the active Kustomization excludes it. The Spark is the backend that remains when the tower is dark. ...

August 14, 2026 · 6 min · Robert D. White
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Cloudflare Tunneling to Internal Resources with Cloudflared

Introduction This post will cover how to set up a Docker container of Cloudflared on your internal network to provide a private tunnel from Cloudflare to your internal resources. After setting up the Cloudflared tunnels, you will no longer need to expose ports 80 and 443. This post assumes you currently have a vibrant and functioning internal network with a reverse proxy (in my case, Nginx Proxy Manager) already configured. Additionally, this post assumes you have a Cloudflare account with the ability to modify DNS records for your domain(s). ...

June 27, 2022 · 5 min · Robert D. White
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'Split-Brain DNS' for Internal HTTPS with Let's Encrypt

Introduction In this previous post, I showed how to connect to a Unifi router with HTTPS, effectively ridding you of the tedious words, “Your connection is not private.” However, the method shown in that post directs your connection to an external DNS server (e.g., CloudFlare) in order to resolve your Unifi router. This adds some latency by requiring your traffic to flow out and in rather than staying local. Additionally, it requires opening some ports externally. While this is not necessarily bad, it certainly increases the risks and attack surface of your network. ...

May 13, 2022 · 10 min · Robert D. White
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