Exploring industry DevOps practices and technical expertise.
This article explains why Terraform, a multi‑cloud infrastructure‑as‑code tool, is valuable for DevOps teams due to its simple syntax, modularity, platform‑agnostic design, strong community, and features like plan previews that enable safe, efficient, and version‑controlled infrastructure management.
This article explains Kubernetes resource management, covering compute and non‑compute resources, key mechanisms such as quotas and autoscalers, monitoring tools, and optimization strategies to improve cluster efficiency, scalability, and cost effectiveness.
This article examines how infrastructure management has shifted toward treating infrastructure as code, the growing responsibilities of developers in deploying and maintaining cloud‑native platforms such as Kubernetes, the challenges they face, and the supporting role of platform/DevOps teams and tools like Terraform and ArgoCD.
This article explains how Kubernetes termination signals work, the graceful shutdown workflow, handling of application termination, customization of grace periods, impact on high availability, best practices, and tools such as preStop hooks to ensure reliable container lifecycle management.
The article explains that while observability is not new, cloud‑native systems have driven rapid development of observable platforms, detailing data collection architectures, direct push versus file‑based approaches, and various sampling techniques (head, tail, and local sampling) to balance completeness, real‑time reporting, and performance impact.
This article explains why and how to use Kubernetes features such as multiple pod replicas, PodDisruptionBudgets, deployment strategies, health probes, graceful termination, anti‑affinity, resource limits, and autoscaling to build zero‑downtime, highly available applications.
This article explains why measuring software development productivity is challenging, introduces the concept of DevOps metrics, details the four DORA indicators and their performance levels, and discusses additional metrics such as cycle time, quality, customer and employee satisfaction, CI/CD health, uptime, and service level indicators to help teams monitor progress and identify problems.
This tutorial walks through installing the etcd client, creating an Nginx deployment for verification, backing up the etcd data store, validating the backup, and restoring the backup to a Kubernetes cluster while handling component shutdown and restart procedures.
This guide explains how to register for Akuity Academy's free ArgoCD GitOps introductory course, walk through the training modules, complete the hands‑on GitOps experiment, and obtain the certification badge, providing a practical pathway for DevOps practitioners to master continuous delivery with Argo CD.
This guide walks through setting up a Kubernetes cluster with NFS storage, loading Jenkins and agent Docker images, configuring ArgoCD, deploying Jenkins via declarative manifests, initializing Jenkins, creating and deploying a static Jenkins agent, and troubleshooting common issues, providing full code snippets and screenshots.
