Containers, orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and the practices that keep production reliable.
terraform plan or apply hangs, then fails with 'Error acquiring the state lock.' Here's how to confirm it's genuinely stale before force-unlocking it.
How Google's SRE practice in 2003 and the DevOps movement in 2009 emerged independently, solved related delivery problems, and later converged.
A practical Kubernetes guide to blue-green cutovers and cautious canary releases, with health gates, rollback checks, and routing caveats.
Create a secure GitHub Actions pipeline that tests, builds, attests, and deploys immutable container images through OIDC and protected environments.
Configure Kubernetes HPA with verified metrics, resource requests, scaling behavior, load tests, and capacity safeguards for reliable autoscaling.
Create a reproducible local Kubernetes cluster with kind, load development images safely, expose services, test multiple nodes, and clean up.
Why Terraform's state file is the actual source of truth behind every plan and apply, and how drift, locking, and idempotency all follow from that design.
How vulnerability scanners actually inspect container image layers, how to read a scan report, and the practices that reduce real supply-chain risk.
How pod-to-pod networking, Services, and kube-proxy's packet rewriting fit together to make Kubernetes' flat network model actually work.
The two-phase filter-and-score process the Kubernetes scheduler uses to decide which node a pod lands on, and how to influence it.