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devops
5 articles across 4 sub-topics
Infrastructure as Code Pattern: GitOps, Reusable Modules, and Policy Guardrails
TLDR: Infrastructure as code is useful because it makes infrastructure changes reviewable, repeatable, and testable. It becomes production-grade only when module boundaries, state locking, GitOps flow, and policy checks are treated as operational con...
Blue-Green Deployment Pattern: Safe Cutovers with Instant Rollback
TLDR: Blue-green deployment reduces release risk by preparing the new environment completely before traffic moves. It is most effective when rollback is a routing change, not a rebuild. TLDR: Blue-green is practical for SRE teams when three things ar...
How Kubernetes Works: The Container Orchestrator
TLDR TLDR: Kubernetes (K8s) is an operating system for the cloud. It manages clusters of computers (Nodes) and schedules applications (Pods) onto them via a continuous declarative control loop — you describe what you want, and Kubernetes continuousl...
How Fluentd Works: The Unified Logging Layer
TLDR: Fluentd is an open-source data collector that decouples log sources from destinations. It ingests logs from 100+ sources (Nginx, Docker, syslog), normalizes them to JSON, applies filters and transformations, and routes them to 100+ outputs (Ela...
