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Muppitify is Now a Registered Trademark

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Andy Reid
Andy Reid
Andy the Muppit

Today I'm celebrating a milestone: Muppitify is now a registered trademark and The Muppit Sphere is live.

Keep control, find your purpose, stay resilient.

Muppitify means applying the Muppit way of thinking, designing and building.

I recently read Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, who says you don't need to be a genius; you just need to make your creative process visible in small and generous ways.

As luck would have it, I am no genius, but it did inspire me to share my knowledge with you, including my process of creating self-hosted apps and how I build and run Kubernetes clusters, along with all the tools I use. I'll share what I know now, and as I go, in the hope it inspires you to follow your inner Muppit and create your own self-hosted apps.

Find your purpose, build something, and learn from the many mistakes along the way. Or you might build something and then find your purpose through it.

The Sphere is local-first and purpose-driven. A practical collection of my working notes and real-world configurations, learnt by doing.

A quick peek inside the Sphere:

  • Foundations: essential DevOps tools and a YAML helper script
  • GitOps: FluxCD bootstrap with SOPS + age, pinned versions, risk notes and rollbacks
  • Runbooks: Cloudflare on Kubernetes with FluxCD, then WordPress migration via GitOps
  • Apps: a predictive coach build with Strava webhooks, Next.js and PostgreSQL
  • Backup and recovery: Velero to NAS S3 buckets with verified restore runbooks

My approach is Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and GitOps for day-2 operations. It is declarative, versioned, reviewable and reproducible.

I'll show my work in progress, explain the what, why and how, and invite better ways. You don't need a data centre, high-powered compute or the latest GPUs to start. I begin on a MacBook Air with virtualisation, extend to a repurposed 12-year-old desktop for a hybrid cluster, then show a minimal bare-metal production cluster you can expose through Cloudflare or ngrok. Minimal dependencies. High control. Local first. Open source. No ongoing subscriptions needed (though some can help).

Follow for build logs, runbooks and upgrades.

Read more: The Muppit Sphere