--- name: networking-ssl-mastery description: 'Networking and SSL/TLS mastery — DNS, reverse proxies, TLS termination, CDN tuning, firewall rules, and certificate management' version: 1.0.0 category: devops tags: [networking, dns, ssl, tls, nginx, cl

Definitive mastery-level skill for Hermes Agent internals, configuration, and operations. Covers architecture, multi-provider LLM routing, gateway ops, skill authoring, cron/background jobs, memory/hi

Comprehensive Kubernetes mastery guide covering architecture, core objects, networking, security, Helm, Kustomize, debugging, monitoring, GitOps, and production best practices.

### Decision Tree ``` Need load balancing? ─┬─ Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) ──→ HAProxy, NLB, iptables │ Fast, no HTTP awareness ├─ Layer 7 (HTTP) ──→ Nginx, ALB, Traefik, Kong │ Path rout

Provision and sync Hermes Agent to child VPSes for parallel work delegation.