DevOps & Cloud

Abstract Automated tests only protect a product when they run consistently and...

Today’s article is to walk through setting up a Jenkins server based on a simulated company requirement. This task is from Kodekloud’s… Continue reading on Medi

How SealedSecrets lets you commit encrypted secrets to Git safely, why the real risk is losing the controller's private key, and how to back it up.

The 2am Dashboard That Started Everything It was 2:47am when I opened our feature flag...

We kept recreating the same alarms from scratch every time we deployed a new service. So we packaged all 20 into an open-source Terraform… Continue reading on T

Unlock the power of Akamai HLS for seamless video streaming. Learn setup, integration, optimization, security, and troubleshooting tips for optimal performance.

A few months ago I was on call, half asleep, staring at a PagerDuty alert at 2 AM trying to figure out which of our six Grafana dashboards… Continue reading on

Most CI/CD pipelines end the moment a build artifact ships. Jenkins finishes, a green checkmark appears, and everyone moves on. But “build… Continue reading on

From Beginner to Production: Build AI-Powered DevOps Workflows with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Terraform, Slack, PagerDuty, and Enterprise… Continue reading on Me

If you're coming from engineering like I was, Third-Party Risk Management feels weirdly... analog at...

AWS has recently announced the AWS Workload Credentials Provider to automatically deliver and refresh certificates and secrets for applications. The open source

Follow a single web request as it travels through DNS, CDNs, load balancers, application servers, caches, and databases — using the same… Continue reading on IL

These two user-friendly distributions take different routes to the 'best Linux' crown. In the end, it all comes down to the desktop.

Meta's config change safety architecture — canary deployments, progressive rollouts, health checks that catch regressions across billions of users is the most b

This project is an automated AWS cost-optimization detector. It helps identify idle or unused resources such as unattached EBS volumes… Continue reading on Stac

Vercel CLI blocking local dev? Set VERCEL_EXPERIMENTAL_DEV_SKIP_LINK=1 to disconnect the CLI from your project — shell export, .env.local, and verification step

Build production-ready Docker images for Node.js: multi-stage Dockerfile, Compose with named networks/volumes, hot reload, and 5 layer-cache footguns fixed with

Every Monday, before I open a single ticket, I run the same script. Continue reading on Medium »

Nobody told me that the hardest part of managing enterprise infrastructure isn’t the technology. Continue reading on Medium »

Pre-rendering Mermaid and matplotlib charts to PNG before slide composition is the only approach that works reliably in headless CI. Here is what that looks lik

I'm not primarily a devops engineer, but whenever I do devops stuff, I realize I'm usually waiting for builds to complete and I can't easily switch to another t

Originally published on the Sieve blog. Sieve is an open-source (Apache 2.0) context-reduction proxy...

In the world of modern software engineering, containerization has shifted from being a “nice-to-have” skill to an absolute infrastructure… Continue reading on M

How to Safely Expose a Dockerized API Using Nginx Without Opening Ports Continue reading on Medium »

I joined an organization, that uses GitHub Actions that are self-hosted in EKS. Whenever a job is pushed, it gets stuck on the runner until another job is pushe

Every engineering team maintaining a GitHub Actions workflow library has a graveyard of poorly maintained Actions that were written… Continue reading on Devops

I have been on both sides of the cloud architect interview table. As a hiring manager at Lockheed...

When I first joined Patterson UTI as a cloud architect, the infrastructure team was managing hundreds...

After managing infrastructure teams at Lockheed Martin, Cigna Healthcare, and BP Refinery, I have...

For a long time, storing AWS access keys as GitHub secrets was the standard way of authenticating CI/CD pipelines with AWS. Continue reading on Medium »

The price of SSDs has been skyrocketing, but you can still save nearly 64% on the 8TB SanDisk Desk Drive external SSD from Best Buy - until the deal ends tomorr

Today I completed the Terraform Remote State section and gained a much better understanding of how Terraform manages infrastructure in… Continue reading on Medi

We resolved it fast. That was the problem. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Stop Copy-Pasting Kubernetes Manifests. Here is How I Packaged, Secured, and Deployed My App Using Helm, GitHub Pages, and a Secret Local… Continue reading on M

I run a small WordPress + Cloudflare agency. Two recurring pains finally pushed me to build something...

GitHub’s cloud agent turns issues into PRs, but AIDev’s 2026 dataset shows founders must size review, CI, and merge authority first. Continue reading on KAIRI »

For years, one of the awkward parts of using Amazon CloudFront with an Application Load Balancer was this: Continue reading on Medium »

Tired of n8n crashing with SQLITE_BUSY: database is locked? Here is the 3-step fix to switch from SQLite to Postgres and get Workflows… Continue reading on Medi

Caddy is used in production systems everywhere. The Wazuh ruleset had not caught up to it yet. Here is what I built to close that gap. Continue reading on Mediu

For years, GitHub Actions could only execute workflow steps sequentially inside a job. That limitation shaped thousands of CI/CD pipelines… Continue reading on

Why we are proposing PipelineSentry for the AWS Summer Builder Cohort — an architectural shift to bring developer tools, container… Continue reading on Medium »

You’ve been running APIs on Kubernetes for months. Deployments just work. A pod dies, a new one shows up. You push a new version, it rolls… Continue reading on

A breakdown for engineers who use Docker + K8s every day but have never looked under the hood Continue reading on Medium »

The Problem Every PHP Developer Knows You start a new CodeIgniter 4 project. Before...

A practical comparison of two leading secret scanners, and the npm-native alternative that requires zero setup. Continue reading on Medium »

A practical comparison of two leading secret scanners, and the npm-native alternative that requires zero setup. Continue reading on Medium »

And why every engineering team running production traffic should do it too. Continue reading on Medium »

Most CDN platforms are powerful, but they are usually closed, managed, and outside your own...