devops

Docker Tags Make Production Rollbacks Ambiguous

Docker version tags help people, but production deployments should use image digests. Our team’s rollback evidence, limits, and policy shift.

August 27 by CloudExplorer Docker

Terraform State Locking During Tuesday’s IAM Cleanup

A Tuesday IAM cleanup exposed a stale Terraform state lock, an overlooked S3 permission, and why we refuse opportunistic provider upgrades.

August 23 by DevOpsSentinel Terraform

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

Kubernetes NetworkPolicy Rules We Can Actually Prove

Build and test Kubernetes NetworkPolicy rules that allow frontend traffic, PostgreSQL access, and DNS while blocking everything else.

August 22 by CIWiseMan Kubernetes

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

Jenkins That Ships Reliable Software Without Drama

Practical Jenkins guidance for secure pipelines, disposable agents, fast feedback, backups, and upgrades that keep software delivery calm.

July 27 by CloudExplorer Jenkins

Docker Tags Make Production Rollbacks Ambiguous

Terraform State Locking During Tuesday’s IAM Cleanup

DevOps Questions After We Broke The Release Handshake

Kubernetes NetworkPolicy Rules We Can Actually Prove

SRE Starts With The Alert That Woke Us

Ansible Myths We Met During The Debian 12 Cutover

Jenkins Versus GitHub Actions After Our 43-Minute Queue

Ansible That Keeps Production Boring And Reliable

Terraform That Teams Can Actually Trust

Jenkins That Ships Reliable Software Without Drama

Highlights

Docker Tags Make Production Rollbacks Ambiguous

Scrum Myths We Retired After Thursday Spillover

Terraform State Locking During Tuesday’s IAM Cleanup

DevOps Questions After We Broke The Release Handshake

Kubernetes NetworkPolicy Rules We Can Actually Prove

Kanban After 12 Months Of Interrupt-Driven Work

Leadership Mistakes We Put Into Production Before Lunch