Make your Vault secrets short-lived and happy: practical best practices for dynamic credentials
Secrets are like the keys to the band room: if everyone keeps the same key forever, one lost key means a lot of trouble. HashiCorp Vault gives you two ways...
Platform engineering vs DevOps: what’s the real difference?
DevOps has reshaped how software teams deliver value for more than a decade. Lately, “platform engineering” has burst into conversations as the next step organizations take when DevOps principles strain...
Make CI/CD fast and affordable for small engineering teams
Small teams wear a lot of hats. You build features, fix bugs, review PRs — and you still have to keep CI/CD pipelines from turning into slow, expensive beasts. The...
Automating Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions: secure OIDC authentication and protected environments
Continuous delivery to Kubernetes is great — until your CI pipeline has permanent cloud keys sitting in a secrets store. A modern pattern is to let GitHub Actions authenticate to...
Alert fatigue: how to design smarter alerts with PromQL
Alert fatigue is what happens when your monitoring system rings so often that people stop answering. With Prometheus + Alertmanager you have powerful tools to reduce noise — but you...
Balancing polling and event-driven reconciliation in GitOps workflows
Reconciliation loops are the heart of any GitOps system: they continuously compare the desired state (usually stored in Git) with the actual cluster state and take actions to make them...
Edge computing 101: Running containers at the edge with k3s and KubeEdge
Edge computing succeeds when you move compute closer to users and devices — but “cloud-native” tooling can be heavy for small, remote nodes. This practical primer explains a recent, common...
AI-generated Kubernetes manifests: a practical workflow for safety and effectiveness
AI can speed up writing Kubernetes manifests, but speed without safety is like playing a power chord without tuning — loud, fast, and likely to hit a sour note. I...