For the last few months, I’ve been tinkering with building a personal AI assistant (think OpenClaw). One thing quickly became clear: agents get much more useful when they can run real commands like install packages, manipulate data, or browse the interweb. The problem is that letting an agent run arbitrary commands directly on it’s host is less than ideal, so I wanted a sandbox environment where they could run pretty much anything, while reducing the attack surface. ...

After seeing some posts about self-hosting on Heroku and Render I got inspired and decided to take a swing at writing about Self-hosting RedwoodJS on Kubernetes. If you are a serverfull person who likes to get your hands dirty with Docker, Kubernetes with GitHub Actions - this read might be just for you. Heads-up though; It’s quite a lot of config. 🤓 Also; while this is a working implementation that currently supports a production application (maybe a future #show-tell), it leaves some decisions to make on your part. That being said, let me know if you want me to elaborate on some topics and I’m definitely down to make this implementation better. ...