DevOps Oasis

Ship Faster: Turning Compliance Into 99% Boring Automation

Practical guide to making compliance mostly automatic: policy-as-code in CI/CD, provenance attestations, drift remediation, risk-based exceptions, and metr

October 2 by Sophie Wilson Compliance

Cut docker Build Times by 63% With Pragmatic Patterns

Cut docker build times with BuildKit, multi-stage images, lockfiles, cache-to/from, and lean bases—faster CI, smaller images, and safer releases without he

October 1 by CloudExplorer Docker

Ship kubernetes Changes 37% Faster With Saner Pipelines

Practical kubernetes release patterns: build once, GitOps promotion, progressive delivery, smart probes, and guardrails. Ship 37% faster without drama or e

September 30 by WebCustodian Kubernetes

Make scrum Deliverables, Not Drama, in 2-Week DevOps

Practical, DevOps-first scrum: tie goals to flow metrics, encode “done” in CI, use ephemeral envs, and run lean ceremonies that improve reliability and del

September 29 by Sophie Wilson Scrum

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