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Hands-on articles about Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and cloud infrastructure — based on things I've actually built and broken in production.
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GitOps with Argo CD: A Practical Kubernetes Guide
Git becomes your deployment interface. With Argo CD, every change goes through a pull request, every rollback is a git revert, and the cluster continuously reconciles toward what Git says it should be.
10 Feb 202510 min read
GitHub ActionsCI/CDKubernetes
GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline to Kubernetes — From Code Push to Live Deployment
A complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions — linting, testing, building a Docker image, pushing to ECR, and deploying to Kubernetes automatically on every merge to main. Full working configuration included.
14 Nov 202410 min read