Infrastructure

IIoT Ingress Postmortem: Troubleshooting EMQX 5.8 Under Podman Rootless

A postmortem of an IIoT ingress deployment failure: under Podman Rootless, EMQX 5.8 exposed unstable Erlang IPC, HOCON schema validation failures, a blocked security-group port, and M2M requests rejected by CSRF middleware. This post covers the confirmed causes, fixes, and validation path.

Rootless Podman + Systemd Supervision Failure Postmortem: Diagnosing and Repairing a Broken Recovery Path

A postmortem on a failed recovery path under Rootless Podman + Systemd user units, covering confirmed contributing factors, concrete remediation work, validation steps, and remaining risks.