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Docker is supposed to make development faster, more predictable, and easier to ship. Yet many teams still complain about painfully slow Docker builds, bloated images, and mysterious cache misses, often without realizing the root cause lies in their D...

Somewhere in your account, EC2 instances are running with no traffic, no purpose, and no owner. They exist only because nobody had the audacity to delete them. They Were Never Meant to Survive These instances were born from lies. They were launc...

AWS costs can easily get out of control, especially as an application grows and teams keep adding new services. The good news is that most unnecessary spending comes from poor default decisions rather than real system requirements. In this article, w...

It was 11:23 PM. I was shutting down my system for the day. The terminal asked: “Are you sure you want to shut down?” Just as I was about to click Yes, my phone buzzed. Our social media lead was calling. “Didn’t you check the time?” I thought. ...

Security is a vital part of every system and infrastructure. The word "security" comes from the Latin securitas, which is composed of se- meaning “without” and cura meaning “care” or “worry”. Originally, it meant "without worry." Over time, it has co...

A Practical Guide Using Google Cloud APIs Artificial Intelligence is no longer a “future feature.” Today, modern frontends — including Angular applications — integrate AI capabilities such as text generation, image labeling, translation, sentiment ...

1. What is DevOps? DevOps is an approach to software development reliant upon collaboration between developers Dev and operations teams Ops. It's more than just a set of tools; it's a "culture and methodology" and a "combination of cultural philosop...

On 18 November 2025, a major Cloudflare outage rippled across the internet, knocking several platforms offline—X formerly Twitter, ChatGPT, financial trading services, SaaS platforms, and countless websites and APIs relying on Cloudflare’s infrastruc...

Introduction The cloud has fundamentally changed how we build, deploy, and scale software. Once considered a supporting technology, cloud computing has now become the backbone of modern digital transformation. As organizations shift from traditiona...

Howdy, In this chapter, we're going to look at how to expose services running inside our Kubernetes cluster to the outside world using an Ingress Controller. We'll be using the NGINX Ingress Controller and taking full advantage of our GitOps setup w...

Howdy, Secrets are a fundamental part of any application - it's how we securely store sensitive information. In Kubernetes, there are several approaches to handling secrets. In this chapter, we'll explore different ways to manage secrets in Kubernet...

Howdy! Ever since I discovered GitOps, I've been in love with the concept. The idea of managing all your infrastructure configuration from a centralized Git repository - and having a tool automatically apply those changes - is incredibly powerful. ...

Howdy! We've come a long way! We've set up our Kubernetes cluster, configured GitOps with ArgoCD, managed secrets securely, exposed applications through Ingress, and set up DNS with SSL certificates. But there's one critical piece we haven't address...

Howdy! In this chapter, I'll walk through the setup of the Kubernetes cluster using Taloshttps://talos.dev/. The cluster will consist of three physical machines, each serving as both control-plane and worker to allow workloads scheduling on all node...

Howdy! Everything needs a base to be built on top of. Nothing can be done out of the blue. Take a house for example: it needs a blueprint, then we need to start building the foundation to then build on top of. This is what I'll be tackling in this p...

Howdy, > Note: This post has been shortened due to character limitations. For complete patch configurations and detailed explanations, refer to the original post. Our environment is starting to take shape. We have a Kubernetes cluster up and runnin...

Howdy! Welcome to the first quest I'll be tackling! This one might take a while to complete, as it will serve as the foundation for everything that follows - my Home Lab. I've had the idea of creating a Home Lab for quite some time now - a place to...