Making Vault + Kubernetes CSI safer after the CSI service-account token changes
Kubernetes’ handling of secrets and service account tokens has continued to evolve, and that evolution matters if you use HashiCorp Vault to deliver secrets into pods. This article walks through...
Practical Patterns for Secure CI/CD: Short‑Lived Credentials, Secrets Scanning, and Supply‑Chain Hardening
CI/CD pipelines accelerate delivery — but they also multiply attack surface. Recent supply‑chain compromises show how a trusted security tool can become an exfiltration vector and expose pipeline secrets and...
Compose a flexible local microservices workflow with profiles, multi-file overrides, and watch mode
Local microservice development shouldn’t feel like tuning a dozen radios at once. You want a setup where each service can be started alone, spun up with helpful debug tools, or...
Shareable CI with GitHub Actions: start with reusable workflows
If you’ve ever cloned the same CI pipeline into three different repositories and spent an afternoon fixing the same YAML bug in each, reusable workflows in GitHub Actions will feel...
Packaging Helm charts as OCI artifacts (hands‑on guide for modern Helm)
Helm’s distribution model has shifted: modern Helm workflows favor OCI registries, artifact signing, and tighter GitOps integration. This hands‑on guide walks through packaging a chart, publishing it as an OCI...
Platform engineering vs DevOps: what’s the real difference?
DevOps and platform engineering are often mentioned in the same breath, like different parts of the same band — DevOps is the rhythm section that keeps the song moving, while...
SLO-driven monitoring with Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards
Keeping an eye on raw metrics is like listening to every instrument individually at rehearsal — useful, but it doesn’t tell you whether the song works together. Service Level Objectives...
GitOps-driven canary rollouts for ML models with Argo CD and KServe
Modern ML deployments need the same reliability and traceability as application code. GitOps gives you that: declarative manifests in Git, an automated reconciler, and a clear audit trail. For inference...