DevOps & Cloud

A hands-on walkthrough of scripting automated backups with zip, scp, and passwordless SSH. Continue reading on Medium »

When you pull a container image from a registry, how do you know it actually came from a trusted source? How do you know no one tampered… Continue reading on Me

The AWS Skills Conundrum in DevOps/Platform Engineer Interviews Transitioning from a...

I’m excited to continue this blog series on containers and Docker! This is the 9th blog in the series, where we will dive into Docker… Continue reading on Mediu

The Story of a Passing Host Check, a Failing Instance Check, and the Deep Dive into Linux Kernel Drivers. Continue reading on Medium »

Digital transformation has become a necessity for businesses looking to remain competitive in today’s technology-driven market… Continue reading on Medium »

Day 2. Not Day 1, not Day 50. Day 2 is the day the motivation from starting has worn off, and the...

How I Stopped Burning Cash on Token Limits — A CTO's Field Notes Three months ago, I was staring at...

Last year I was asked to investigate a startup's AWS bill. It had jumped from roughly $200/month to...

The six Karpenter consolidation settings that actually move the needle in 2026. What each one does, the defaults that hurt, and the values I use in production.

If you’re a developer running low on disk space, you’re not alone. Here’s how I freed up 50+ GB in minutes. Continue reading on Medium »

Ansible is one of the widely used tools in DevOps automation for configuration management, especially...

San Francisco — June 23, 2026 — CloudPilot AI today brought its autonomous Kubernetes optimization to Microsoft Azure. Any team running… Continue reading on Med

Most tricky part of Nginx: The trailing slash behavior in proxy_pass is one of the most confusing...

I spent 3 years thinking DevOps was about tools. The best engineer on my team proved me wrong in one conversation. Continue reading on Medium »

I’ve been using Docker for a while now, and at some point I decided to stop just using it and actually understand it — what happens under… Continue reading on M

A developer’s guide to sandboxing suspicious repositories using VS Code Dev Containers The Problem: Why Reviewing Untrusted Code Is… Continue reading on Medium

As organizations accelerate digital transformation, security can no longer be treated as a final checkpoint. Modern businesses require… Continue reading on Medi

A beginner-friendly but deep dive into Linux cgroups — the hidden technology that prevents one process from destroying your system Continue reading on Medium »

“Building an event-driven, closed-loop pipeline that bridges AWS DevOps and FinOps agents with Kiro-CLI and Lambda to turn infrastructure… Continue reading on M

In my previous article, I showed how to host multiple React applications under a single domain using Google Cloud Storage, a Global… Continue reading on Medium

Turning repeated Caddy configuration into reusable snippets for safer, cleaner, and more consistent self-hosted infrastructure. Continue reading on Medium »

This article is about the setup I recently put together for exposing applications over HTTPS on a Kubernetes cluster using Traefik as both… Continue reading on

How Render, Railway, and Fly.io actually charge you — free tiers, plan fees, and per-second usage — with a side-by-side table and when each one wins.

TL;DR: A chunk of our EC2 build agents got slow at the same time every afternoon. No CPU pressure, no...

The software development lifecycle (SDLC) in 2026 has reached unprecedented speeds. Continuous deployment is no longer a luxury; it is an… Continue reading on M

When we started modernizing Helianthus, Docker was already part of the development workflow. Continue reading on Medium »

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) transformed the way modern DevOps teams manage cloud resources. Tools like Terraform allow engineers to… Continue reading on Medium

arXiv:2606.20758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern microservice deployments fail in ways that are easy to detect and hard to explain. When a fault propaga

There is a big difference between running a Docker container and operating a distributed application. Continue reading on Medium »

One of the biggest shifts in my DevOps journey has been moving from simple container deployments to...

Securely Grant AWS Permissions to Kubernetes Pods Without Storing Access Keys Continue reading on Medium »

Securing Continuous Delivery: How to Verify Configuration Shifts Locally with Secure JFIF to...

Kubernetes for Beginners: Deploy Your First App Imagine being able to deploy and manage...

If you’re working with Kubernetes, mastering kubectl is essential. Whether you’re deploying applications, debugging issues, or managing… Continue reading on Med

A practical guide to securely accessing remote Linux systems using SSH and passwordless authentication. Continue reading on Medium »

There's a particular kind of dread that hits when a user DMs you "hey, is your app down?" You check...

Manually maintained .env.example files drift out of sync. I show you how to generate one from your schema so it's always accurate.

According to the 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 78% of DevOps engineers list Bash as a core skill, and 62% say it saves them at… Continue reading on Medi

Uptime monitoring is supposed to give you peace of mind. Set it up, forget about it, and sleep...

A practical, no-nonsense guide to diagnosing freezes, random shutdowns, and lag on older Linux laptops, with copy-paste commands. No paid software.

Modern CI/CD pipelines are no longer passive delivery systems — they’ve become high-value attack surfaces where trust assumptions are routinely exploited. Incid

A */1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I...

A */1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I want to admit to work out why. The… Continue reading on Med

The desensitization spiral nobody measures, and a scoring framework that reversed attrition in a 60-person org. Continue reading on Medium »

Have you ever joined a new team, excited to write code on your first day, only to spend hours fighting with your terminal before you can… Continue reading on Me

Every code review starts the same way. You open a diff and try to figure out what it actually means -...

Hey Folks, would love some advice from the community, I'm currently a .NET developer who also handles Azure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and some Kubernetes wo