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DevOps & Cloud
CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, monitoring and infrastructure as code
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Linux & CLI
beginner
Navigate the filesystem, manage permissions, and use pipes
Docker & Containers
beginner
Write a production-ready Dockerfile
Cloud Fundamentals
intermediate
Deploy a web app on AWS EC2 or App Engine
Kubernetes
intermediate
Deploy a multi-container app on a k8s cluster
CI/CD Pipelines
intermediate
Build a CI pipeline that runs tests on every PR
Infrastructure as Code
advanced
Provision a full VPC with Terraform

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
Stop Frying, Start Baking: Scaling Kubernetes Bootstrap by Shifting Workload from Ansible to Packer
The “Bloated Playbook” Problem Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
Stop Watching Tutorials and Start Breaking S3 Buckets
We’ve all had that “innocent” thought “How hard can it be to build a simple app?” I wanted to build VoxForge a straightforward… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
Day 11/25: Multi-Stage Builds: Shrinking Your Docker Images from 1GB to 15MB
Real-Time Scenario: You’ve dockerized your Go (Golang) backend application. The Dockerfile looks simple: use a Go base image, copy the… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
Infrastructure as Code — Why Terraform Changed How I Think About Servers
Stop clicking around in cloud consoles. Your infrastructure deserves version control too. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
How sudo apt update REALLY Works Behind the Scenes
Understanding Ubuntu’s package manager at the file system level Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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1mo ago
I Let a Cloud VM Install Docker itself, and Here Is What I Learned
In January, I decided to learn DevOps. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2mo ago
Docker — A Nonsense Guide
When you move deeper into development or cybersecurity, you’ll eventually hit the problem of “it works on my machine” vs “it breaks… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Maturity
Why IaC Is No Longer Just Automation, It’s Governance. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
The $7,000/Year MongoDB Optimization Nobody Talks About: Strategic Primary Placement
How we accidentally discovered that WHERE your MongoDB primary lives matters as much as HOW you configure it Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Why Your Ansible CIS Playbook Passes on One Host and Fails on Another
You’ve run your CIS RHEL 9 Ansible playbook. The tasks complete without errors. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2mo ago
Why Your Ansible CIS Playbook Passes on One Host and Fails on Another
You’ve run your CIS RHEL 9 Ansible playbook. The tasks complete without errors. Continue reading on Medium »
InfoQ AI/ML
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2mo ago
OpenTelemetry Declarative Configuration Reaches Stability Milestone
The OpenTelemetry project has announced that key portions of its declarative configuration specification have reached stable status. The observability framework
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Building with Containers in Go Using Podman API
My pet project involved building documentation with Hugo. Using a standalone binary works, but it locks you into whatever happens to be… Continue reading on Med

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Our Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff Lasted 6 Hours. Lost $340K Revenue. Here’s What We Missed.
The deployment check 47 engineers use. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Our Production Went Down at 2 AM Because of SSL — Here’s the System That Fixed It
Stop manually renewing certificates. Build a system that never fails. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Most Terraform GitHub Actions Pipelines Are Overengineered — So I Built One That Isn’t
Every DevOps team says they want standardization. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
From Commit to Cloud: Building a Frontend CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions and Azure Static Web…
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are no longer “nice to have” practices for frontend teams. Once a project starts growing… Continue reading on M

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Soft Links vs Hard Links in Linux Explained for Beginners
A practical guide to understanding and managing hard links and soft links in Linux. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Stop Saying “Cloud First” — What I Learned After Things Went Wrong
“Let’s move everything to the cloud.” Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Day 21: The Conductor of the Orchestra — Introduction to Docker Compose and YAML.
Introduction: Welcome to Phase 5 of our Docker Deep Dive! Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
MCP Server Architecture in Production: What We Learned from 10+ Enterprise Deployments
MCP Server Architecture in Production: Lessons from 10+ Enterprise Deployments Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
SMB vs NFS for self-hosters: which one belongs where
File-sharing protocols without the cargo cult, plus the line between LAN sharing and remote access Continue reading on Stackademic »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Docker & Containers Explained: From Zero to Production-Ready
Containers are one of the most important technologies in modern DevOps. In this beginner-friendly deep dive, I break down everything I… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Cybersecurity
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2mo ago
The Silent Risk of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Everyone’s talking about IaC (Infrastructure as Code) as the new gold standard, and for good reason. The ability to spin up entire… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
⚡ I Built, Containerized, Monitored & Deployed a Full-Stack App — In One Day (Without Writing Code…
What if you could build a complete production-ready application in a single day — without writing every line of code yourself? Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly with tools like Terraform, the Directed…
For a Cloud Architect, resolving these is not just about fixing an error; it’s about designing for parallelism, maintainability, and… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
From Task Runners to Agent Routines: How Persistent Workflows Change Async Agent Architecture
I do not run a fleet of agents. My brother Brandon and I run five, on a good week, for our handful of clients at RapidClaw. So when… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Day 8/10 Terraform - Modules, Provisioners
A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Understanding Terraform. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Smarter Canary Rollbacks with GitOps, OPA, and ML: Building a CI/CD System That Protects Itself
How I built a self-protecting deployment system using Isolation Forest, Linear Regression, OPA, and GitOps — and This is not just a CI/CD… Continue reading on M

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Terraform State Management at Scale: Strategies for Enterprise Environments
Terraform is one of the most popular tools for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It helps teams define and manage cloud resources using code… Continue reading on Me
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
How I Migrated My Entire AWS Infrastructure to Terraform (And You Should Too)
You have a production AWS environment that works. EC2 instances running, security groups configured, secrets stored, S3 buckets serving… Continue reading on Med
InfoQ AI/ML
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2mo ago
Article: Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker
Docker Extensions boost developer speed but create a "visibility gap" by isolating telemetry. To meet enterprise needs, extensions must act as bridges to centra
InfoQ AI/ML
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2mo ago
Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry
Airbnb's observability engineering team has published details of a large-scale migration away from StatsD and a proprietary Veneur-based aggregation pipeline to

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Load Testing AWS Amplify APIs with k6 — From Smoke to Stress
Amplify and Performance Testing Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
How I Reduced Flutter Build Time by 40% Without Changing App Code
No architectural rewrites. No faster hardware. Just toolchain configuration — and we cut cold build time by 51%, incremental builds by 61%. Continue reading on

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Linux — Process Data Structure, Two
When a running process needs to perform an I/O operation, it must wait for the I/O to complete. At this point, it releases the CPU and… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Implementando uma Pipeline de CD para Kubernetes com GitHub Actions
Na era do DevOps, a automação de Continuous Deployment (CD) é essencial para garantir a entrega ágil e segura de aplicações em ambientes… Continue reading on Me

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Day 7/10 Terraform - Count, for_each, Dynamic Blocks
A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Understanding Terraform. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Self-Hosting vs Cloud Hosting n8n: What No One Tells You
Automation tools are becoming a core part of modern software systems. From connecting APIs to building intelligent workflows, automation… Continue reading on Me

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Your Readiness Probe Is Probably Lying.
Kubernetes readiness probes are supposed to answer one simple question: Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Docker Compose Explained in the Simplest Way (With Real Example)
I’m excited to continue this blog series on containers and Docker! This is the third blog in the series, where we will dive into Docker… Continue reading on Dev

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Getting Started with Terraform: From Zero to Production
Infrastructure has undergone a fundamental shift over the past decade. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Namespaces and Resource Management: Organizing Your Cluster (Part 9)
Part 9: Namespaces & Resource Management Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Deploying a Static Website on AWS S3 with Terraform: A Beginner’s Guide
Day 25 — I deployed a fully modular static website on AWS using S3 and CloudFront. Hit a confusing AWS error, figured out why, and got the… Continue reading on
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
You May Have Perfect Backups and Still Lose Everything
Backup Best Practices for Data You Cannot Afford to Lose Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
AWS and Linux DevOps: 21 Real Interview Questions
Preparing for DevOps interviews at the 5–8 years experience level requires a strong balance of cloud knowledge, Linux fundamentals, and… Continue reading on Med
Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Saying Goodbye to the Dashboard: Mekong Tunnel v1.5.1 is Now CLI-First
Got it! I’ve updated the post to swap out the organization name for your official domains. This keeps the focus entirely on the product’s… Continue reading on M

Medium · DevOps
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2mo ago
Kubernetes YAML Validation Error — Causes and Fix
In Kubernetes, everything is defined using YAML files. Continue reading on Medium »
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