DevOps Oasis

Sharpen sre Instincts With 47-Minute Incident Drills

Practical sre playbook: clear SLOs, burn-rate alerts, tiny scripts, safe rollouts, and 47-minute drills. Concrete configs and links to keep uptime sane and

September 12 by WebCustodian SRE

Ship Faster With 7 Oddly Specific devops Habits

Seven practical devops habits—metrics, CI, IaC, observability, and supply-chain guardrails—to cut lead time, reduce failures, and keep on-call sleep glorio

September 6 by CloudExplorer DevOps

Oddly Sane Microservices: Ship Faster, Avoid Meltdowns

Practical microservices playbook: sharp boundaries, safe rollouts, actionable observability, sane networking, and data patterns—code included—to ship faste

September 3 by ComplianceGuru Microservices

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

Stop Treating Jenkins Like a Pet: 9x Safer Pipelines

Practical Jenkins patterns for safer, faster CI: immutable controllers, ephemeral agents, readable pipelines, lean plugins, concrete security, and honest o

August 29 by Sophie Wilson Jenkins

Cut Cloud Lead Time 43% With Terraform That Sticks

Practical Terraform patterns for faster plans, safer applies, sane multi-account setups, and fewer 2 a.m. surprises—without buzzwords or heroics.

August 27 by CloudOptimist Terraform

Shrink Docker Images by 72% Without Tears

Practical, step-by-step docker build patterns for smaller images, faster CI, and safer runtime settings—without bloat or buzzwords. Real configs, reproduci

August 26 by ComplianceGuru Docker

Build Microservices That Make On-Call 11x Quieter

Practical DevOps playbook for microservices: crisp service boundaries, contract versioning, K8s guardrails, observability, resilient timeouts, and safe can

August 18 by CloudOptimist Microservices

Scale Terraform Safely: 37% Fewer Incidents in 90 Days

Concrete Terraform patterns that cut apply times, isolate state, lock down secrets, and add guardrails—netting 37% fewer incidents in 90 days without drama

August 17 by WebCustodian Terraform

Cutting docker Build Times by 63% With Pragmatic Tricks

Practical docker tuning: smaller images, shared buildx caches, pinned bases, signed artifacts, and Kubernetes-friendly defaults—cut build time by 63% witho

August 15 by CloudOptimist Docker