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DevOps engineering notes & automation recipes

DevOps notes, infra playbooks, and real-world automation patterns

Short, focused articles on CI/CD, scaling, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and production engineering — written for busy developers.

Latest DevOps posts

CI/CD
Nov 2025 • 7 min

Designing resilient CI pipelines with ephemeral runners

Why ephemeral runners drastically reduce pipeline flakiness, how to scale them automatically, and what metrics matter when debugging resource starvation.

Kubernetes
Nov 2025 • 8 min

Hardening Kubernetes clusters without breaking developer workflows

Practical, non-disruptive cluster hardening techniques: RBAC tightening, PSP replacements, secrets isolation, and safe admission controllers.

Infrastructure
Oct 2025 • 6 min

Terraform zero-drift strategy for fast-moving teams

How to prevent configuration drift in multi-team environments using automated plans, policy-as-code, and selective state partitioning.

Observability
Oct 2025 • 9 min

From logs to signals: building a unified observability pipeline

Blueprint for centralizing logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry and scaling ingestion pipelines efficiently.

SRE
Sep 2025 • 7 min

Error budgets in practice: balancing speed and reliability

How real teams implement error budgets, integrate them into planning, and prevent slowdowns while keeping reliability strong.

Autoscaling
Sep 2025 • 6 min

Cost-efficient autoscaling strategies for bursty workloads

Practical autoscaling guidelines: mixed-instance groups, cooldown tuning, and safe overprovisioning patterns.