DevOps Oasis

Ship Faster With Docker: 47% Fewer Surprises

Practical Docker patterns: lean images, BuildKit caching, digest-based deploys, safe defaults, observability, and CI guardrails that cut surprises without

September 28 by CloudOptimist Docker

Seven Surprisingly Costly kubernetes Mistakes We Finally Fixed

Hard-won kubernetes lessons: SLOs, guardrails, right-sized pods, networking, state, resilience, and autoscaling. Real configs and links, minus the buzzword

September 27 by CloudExplorer Kubernetes

Stop Guessing and Make Helm Boringly Reliable

Practical, battle-tested helm patterns for reliable charts: sane values, signing, testing, progressive delivery, and fleet operations—without 2 a.m. rollba

September 26 by CloudExplorer Helm

Cut 38% Pages: itops That Actually Sleeps

Practical itops playbook: calm the pager, tighten signals, rewire on-call, ship safer releases, and automate runbooks. Real-world steps for 30–40% fewer pa

September 25 by CIWiseMan ITOps

Make jenkins Boring: 7 Practical, High-Impact Upgrades

Practical upgrades to make jenkins stable, fast, and secure: pipelines-as-code, ephemeral agents, Vault secrets, and signed artifacts—with fewer 2 a.m. pag

September 24 by WebCustodian Jenkins

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

Reduce 43% Rollback Pain With Terraform That Scales

Practical, code-first terraform habits: pinned versions, locked state, diff-first CI, drift checks, and kinder policies that make infrastructure changes fa

September 22 by Sophie Wilson Terraform

Ship Faster With Ansible: 47% Fewer Surprises

Practical Ansible patterns for structure, inventory, idempotence, secrets, SSH tuning, and role testing with Molecule—aimed at fewer surprises and calmer d

September 21 by CloudExplorer Ansible

Ship Faster: 97% Compliance Without Slowing Devs

Practical ways to bake compliance into CI/CD, IAM, data, and Kubernetes—codified controls, automated evidence, and audits that finally get boring, not slow

September 20 by WebCustodian Compliance

Ship Faster, Break Less: sre With 0.1% Regret

Practical sre playbook: SLOs that bite back, error-budget gates in CI/CD, opinionated observability, calm incidents, and cost-aware guardrails without dram

September 19 by CIWiseMan SRE