Emily Brown, Author at DevOps Oasis

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

Ship Faster, Fail Less: Stubbornly Practical ai For Ops

Practical DevOps patterns for running AI in production: flags, CI/CD, observability, cost control, and fail-safes—complete with code snippets and trusted r

October 25 by Emily Brown AI

Ship Faster: 44-Minute DevOps From Commit to Prod

A field-tested devops playbook for 44-minute delivery: GitOps, fast pipelines, clear SLOs, and humane on-call culture—plus copyable YAML to speed your next

October 6 by Emily Brown DevOps

Cut Release Drift: Ansible That Stubbornly Sticks

Practical Ansible patterns for stable, fast deployments: clean inventories, idempotent playbooks, vault hygiene, CI with lint/Molecule, and safe rolling ro

September 23 by Emily Brown Ansible

Cut Ops Toil With Ansible: 37% Faster Deploys

How we make Ansible faster, safer, and testable: clean configs, idempotent roles, Molecule in CI, smart secrets, and scaling tactics that won’t page you at

September 2 by Emily Brown Ansible

Build Relentless Pipelines With Jenkins: 34% Fewer Failures

Concrete Jenkins tactics: declarative pipelines, ephemeral agents, sane caching, secret hygiene, controller stability, and pipeline tests for faster, less

August 14 by Emily Brown Jenkins