MEGATRON Infrastructure Documentation

MEGATRON is a high-performance workstation serving as the central hub for software development, Kubernetes cluster management, machine learning research, and production SaaS hosting. Built around an AMD Threadripper 3990X with dual RTX 3090 GPUs and 251 GiB of RAM, it runs a K3s Kubernetes cluster spanning three nodes and hosts over a dozen production applications.

Quick Stats

Metric	Value
CPU	AMD Threadripper 3990X (64C/128T)
RAM	251 GiB (42 GiB used)
GPUs	2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB each)
OS	Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, Kernel 5.15.0-139-generic
Uptime	37 days
K8s	K3s v1.33.6+k3s1, 3 nodes
Namespaces	31
Applications	7+ production apps across 5 domains
Research Projects	130+ (ULTRATHINK SNN research)
Root Disk	1.6T / 3.1T (54%)
Network Storage	79T / 88T SMB share (90%)

What Runs on MEGATRON

Production Applications

STIQ (stiq.us) -- SaaS platform with prod/dev/staging environments
GlamHub (glamhub.m3gatr0n.com) -- Content platform with Astro, Directus, Umami analytics
CoreStation (corestation.io) -- Fire department SaaS with 3 environments
IDP (idp.pro) -- Identity provider platform
Kelsey Farm Equipment (kelseyfarmequipment.com) -- E-commerce
Aegis VPN (aegis.m3gatr0n.com) -- VPN service
Bibliotheca -- Docker-based book management with TTS and search

Infrastructure Services

Authentik (SSO), Vault (secrets), Harbor (container registry), Devtron (CI/CD), Prometheus/Grafana/Loki (monitoring), Longhorn (distributed storage), Linkerd (service mesh), cert-manager (TLS), and more.

Research

The ULTRATHINK project -- 130+ spiking neural network and efficient attention research papers organized across 8 waves, with dedicated Claude Code agents per project.

Architecture at a Glance

Internet
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Cloudflare (DNS + WAF)
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cloudflared tunnel ──> Traefik Ingress (NodePort :32672)
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                K3s Pods  K3s Pods  K3s Pods
              (megatron) (thing1)  (thing2)
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                    v
              Docker Containers (Bibliotheca, Coolify)
              GPU Workloads (ULTRATHINK research)
              Tailscale Mesh (Mac Studio, MacBook, Lambda)

Documentation Sections

Section	Description
System	Hardware specs, OS, storage, GPUs
Cluster	K3s architecture, nodes, namespaces
Applications	All hosted applications with details
Infrastructure	Supporting services (auth, monitoring, CI/CD)
Docker	Non-Kubernetes containers
Networking	Cloudflare tunnels, Tailscale, TLS
IaC	Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Compose
SSH & Access	SSH config, rescue SSH, kubeconfig
Research	ULTRATHINK project overview
Issues	Known problems and degraded services
Runbooks	Operational procedures

Audit Date

This documentation was generated from a comprehensive system audit performed on 2026-03-24. Resource usage figures (RAM, disk, GPU) reflect point-in-time snapshots and will drift over time.