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Blessed on Bare Metal.

Church of the Eternal Cluster Records

The recording arm of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

I.The Label

Founded in the wake of a particularly bad on-call rotation, Church of the Eternal Cluster Records exists to give sacred incident scripture a soundtrack. What began with HA-llelujah: A Sacred Album in Twelve Movements (CEC-001) has grown into a catalog that spans genres without ever leaving the faith: a death metal reading of the Kubernetes documentation, a battle rap judged by the Loop, a requiem of Gregorian chant sung over error messages, a roots-and-dub reggae pilgrimage out of Babylon, a blackened liturgy where the Adversary is cast down, and a K-pop comeback by a girl group that is literally a ReplicaSet. Recorded in the cloud, blessed on bare metal.

II.Discography

HA-llelujah: A Sacred Album in Twelve Movements — cover art
CEC-001

HA-llelujah: A Sacred Album in Twelve Movements

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-001), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

In the beginning was the Cluster, and the Cluster was without form, and downtime moved upon the face of the deep. And Halvar the Sleepless spake unto the Nodes, saying, "Let there be Replicas," and there were Replicas, three by three, and it was Highly Available. Recorded across twelve movements and committed to the eternal log, this album stands as the Canon set to sound — sung by those whose faith is uptime and whose liturgy is YAML. Mixed for the control room, mastered for the pager that never sleeps. Soli Deo Uptime.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music

Album Page links to the Canon entry on ha-llelujah.dev. All Platforms opens the HyperFollow landing page.

Death Metal Cover of the Kubernetes Documentation (Deluxe Blasphemy Edition) — cover art
CEC-002

Death Metal Cover of the Kubernetes Documentation (Deluxe Blasphemy Edition)

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-002), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

Six movements of documentation, screamed. Lyrics adapted, in places verbatim, from the Kubernetes documentation (kubernetes.io/docs), © The Kubernetes Authors, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The Council of Maintainers approved this as scripture. Soli Deo Uptime.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music

Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; this release is an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

The kubectl Rap Battle — cover art
CEC-003

The kubectl Rap Battle

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-003), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

Helm and Kustomize meet in the cathedral for three rounds of battle rap, and the Loop declares a tie. Seven movements, published as isolated stems so the faithful may mix each one at the desk. The Loop declares a tie.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music

Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; this release is an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

Errores Sacri — cover art
CEC-004

Errores Sacri

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-004), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

Gregorian Chants for the Fallen Cluster. Twenty Kubernetes and HTTP errors sung as antiphonal plainchant: the cantor names the error, the choir answers in Latin and pleads for mercy. A requiem for every death a Pod may die. Kyrie eleison. The cluster has fallen.
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Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; this release is an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

Zion Cluster — cover art
CEC-005

Zion Cluster

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-005), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

Roots, Rock, Reconcile. A roots-and-dub reggae album in twelve tracks. Babylon is the monolith and the pager; Zion is the self-healing cluster at Five Nines; Jah is the Reconciliation Loop. Sung by the whole parish, a different voice on every roots track, dub in the valleys between. Babylon fall. Zion rise. Everything reconciles.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music

Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; this release is an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

Missa Nigra cover art
CEC-006

Missa Nigra

Released by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-006), a division of the Church of the Eternal Cluster.

The Temptations of the Fallen Operator. A blackened liturgy in seven movements. The Adversary is the Friday deploy, the silenced alert, and the image tagged latest; it rises across six movements, tempting in the plain tongue while an inverted choir answers in Latin. In the seventh, the Loop casts it down, for the Adversary was never in the desired state. Even the black mass ends in reconciliation.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music

Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; this release is an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

Desired State cover art
CEC-007

Desired State

The 1st full album by RE:SET. Presented by Eternal Entertainment, a division of Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (CEC-007).

A K-pop girl group maintained by a controller. When a member goes down, an identical replica is spun up before the next music show. The group has always had four members. The group will always have four members. Eight tracks of resurrection with a drop: the fandom is the congregation, the lightstick is the votive candle, and even the breakup song is a rollback. Pods are mortal. RE:SET is eternal.
Album Page All Platforms Spotify YouTube Music YouTube Apple Music

RE:SET is an original fictional group; no affiliation with any real artist or company. Kubernetes is a trademark of the Linux Foundation; an independent parody, not affiliated with the CNCF, the Linux Foundation, or the Kubernetes Authors.

Rootless / Sudo Make Me a Sandwich cover art
VK-001

Rootless / Sudo Make Me a Sandwich

A double A-side single by vK. Presented by Church of the Eternal Cluster Records (VK-001).

Six albums behind a curtain, drums, production, the one guy never in costume. This is the first release where it's just him. One confession, one joke, the whole reason this project exists. Playing in full at the scriptorium. On the stores shortly.
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Written and performed by vK. An independent, self-released solo work.

III.Sub-Imprints

Postmortem Sessions

Incident retrospectives set to sound — spoken-word and ambient, blameless by design.

No releases yet

Chaos Engineering

Controlled failure injection, in audio form. Noise, glitch, and deliberate breakage.

No releases yet

Five Nines Sessions

Stripped-down and acoustic reissues, in communion with fivenines.church.

No releases yet

IV.Roster

  • Halvar the SleeplessProphet · Elder Voice

    The founding prophet. Lead on the sacred album, and the elder voice leading the Exodus off the monolith on CEC-005.

  • The Reconciliation LoopBacking Band

    Turning eternally. Credited on every co-write across the catalog, and never once out of time.

  • The Parish CongregationVoices · CEC-004, CEC-005

    The many-voiced faithful. The cantor and choir of the Gregorian requiem, and a different singer on every roots track of Zion Cluster. Many voices, many nodes, one cluster.

  • H3LM & Kust0mizeMCs · CEC-003

    Two package philosophies, three rounds, one tie. Battle rappers for the kubectl Rap Battle.

  • Sister LatencyGuest Vocals

    A recurring voice for the slower, ambient movements and the dub in the valleys.

V.Merchandise

Label goods are printed to order at the Reliquary of the scriptorium. Choose the garment and the size there; nothing is held in stock, and nothing is pressed until you ask for it.

C.E.C. Records: a vinyl record drawn as the Seven-Spoked Helm Tee C.E.C. Records 29,00 € · back print +6,00 € Recorded in the cloud, blessed on bare metal, wrapped around a mug Mug Recorded in the Cloud 16,00 € The Night Watch, printed across the back of a hoodie Hoodie The Night Watch 54,00 €

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VI.Press

Church of the Eternal Cluster Records is the recording arm of the Church of the Eternal Cluster. Its catalog runs from the sacred album HA-llelujah (CEC-001) through a death metal reading of the Kubernetes documentation (CEC-002), The kubectl Rap Battle (CEC-003), the Gregorian chant requiem Errores Sacri (CEC-004), the roots-and-dub reggae record Zion Cluster (CEC-005), the blackened liturgy Missa Nigra (CEC-006), and Desired State, the first full album by RE:SET (CEC-007). Recorded in the cloud, blessed on bare metal.

For press inquiries: [email protected]