Emily Brown, Author at DevOps Oasis

Ansible Without Tears: Reliable Automation We Can Trust

Practical ansible guide for sane inventories, playbooks, roles, variables, secrets, and safer operations with testing tips and real-world guardrails.

March 22 by Emily Brown Ansible

Microservices Without Tears: DevOps Lessons We Learned

Practical DevOps lessons for microservices: clear boundaries, sane CI/CD, Kubernetes defaults, observability, resilience patterns, and scalable standards.

March 13 by Emily Brown Microservices

Kubernetes Without Tears: Practical Ops Patterns That Stick

Practical kubernetes ops patterns: sane cluster standards, readable manifests, safe rollouts, networking basics, resource controls, observability, security

March 10 by Emily Brown Kubernetes

Gitops In Practice: Shipping Changes Without Drama

Practical gitops guide: core loop, repo design, Argo CD and Flux examples, plus security, drift control, rollbacks, and a realistic adoption plan.

March 8 by Emily Brown GitOps

Docker Done Right: Practical Habits We Actually Use

Practical docker habits for repeatable builds, safer images, cleaner compose setups, and fewer late-night debugging sessions across dev and CI.

February 28 by Emily Brown Docker

Quietly Shrink Cycle Time 28% with Pragmatic Kanban for Ops

How ops teams use kanban to cut cycle time, tame WIP, and ship safely—complete with guardrail configs, actionable metrics, and pull policies that actually

January 6 by Emily Brown Kanban

Cut Ticket Volume by 37%: Pragmatic itops That Works

Pragmatic itops playbook: cut noisy pages, version infra, enable self-service, and tame incidents with SLOs, observability, and policy as code—without hero

December 23 by Emily Brown ITOps

Ship Ridiculously Predictable Releases With helm

Practical helm patterns for reliable releases: sane chart design, values control, secure OCI signing, picky CI, safe hooks, and clean promotion across envi

December 9 by Emily Brown Helm

Bake Compliance Into DevOps With 30-Minute Audits

A practical, code-first take on compliance: policy-as-code, evidence in pipelines, Kubernetes guardrails, and metrics that make 30-minute audits possible.

November 5 by Emily Brown Compliance

Make Terraform Boring: 8 Pragmatic Habits With 99.9% Less Drama

Make Terraform calm at scale: stable modules, reliable state, reviewable plans, guardrails in CI, and PR-driven applies with Atlantis—less drama, more safe

November 3 by Emily Brown Terraform