DevOps Oasis

DevOps Questions After We Broke The Release Handshake

Our team answers awkward DevOps questions after a failed release handoff, covering ownership, production access, pager duty, metrics, and rollouts.

August 22 by CIWiseMan DevOps

Kanban After 12 Months Of Interrupt-Driven Work

One year after replacing sprints with kanban, our nine-person platform team grades the move B: clear limits helped, but board upkeep became real work.

August 21 by ComplianceGuru Kanban

Leadership Mistakes We Put Into Production Before Lunch

Six leadership anti-patterns from our platform team: approval bottlenecks, hero culture, bad paging routes, misleading metrics, and unpaid on-call.

August 17 by Sophie Wilson Leadership

SRE Starts With The Alert That Woke Us

A practical beginner primer on SRE, using our payment API alerts, SLOs, error budgets, and on-call decisions from one difficult day.

August 14 by WebCustodian SRE

Ansible Myths We Met During The Debian 12 Cutover

We tested five common Ansible claims during a 28-host Debian 12 cutover, including check mode, roles, idempotence, and deployment speed.

August 11 by ComplianceGuru Ansible

Jenkins Versus GitHub Actions After Our 43-Minute Queue

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI compared after a 43-minute build queue, with concrete picks for small, growing, and platform teams.

August 9 by DevOpsSentinel Jenkins

Ansible That Keeps Production Boring And Reliable

Practical ansible habits for inventory, roles, secrets, tests, deployments, and useful reviews that keep production changes calm and repeatable.

August 7 by CloudOptimist Ansible

Terraform That Teams Can Actually Trust

Build dependable Terraform workflows with clear state rules, small modules, reviewed plans, version pins, and drift checks that keep changes safe daily.

August 3 by Sophie Wilson Terraform