These past few days I’ve been working on extracting more valuable insights from Jira using AI, with the goal of building useful applications around that data. I started with Amazon Q, and honestly, the experience was impressive. In a short time, I had an app with a clean interface and a strong PDF report. If … Read more
Artificial intelligence is evolving fast, but one challenge keeps showing up again and again: connection.AI models are getting smarter, yet they still depend on fragmented, custom-built integrations to access tools, systems, and data. That means every new workflow often requires another layer of glue code, another adapter, or another brittle workaround. This is where Model … Read more
Artificial intelligence is no longer a side topic in DevOps. It is now being applied to code generation, pull request review, anomaly detection, incident investigation, and infrastructure optimization across modern delivery pipelines . For teams running cloud-native platforms, the most useful question is not whether AI matters, but where it creates measurable value without adding unnecessary … Read more
1. Introduction: Why Move from Bare Metal to EKS Angle: “We’re not just moving pods; we’re moving an entire ecosystem: networking, storage, security, observability, and people.” 2. Current State Assessment (On-Prem Cluster) Explain that any good migration starts with brutally honest discovery. Cover: Pitfall to highlight: “Most teams underestimate the number of ‘hidden’ dependencies: hard‑coded … Read more
I was given read access to a mid-sized production Kubernetes cluster — 3 namespaces, ~40 workloads, running on EKS. No insider knowledge. Just tools, curiosity, and 60 minutes. Here’s everything I found. The Setup The cluster belonged to a startup that had been running Kubernetes in production for about 18 months. They had a dedicated … Read more
Introduction Deploying a new version of your application in Kubernetes isn’t just kubectl apply -f. How you deploy matters as much as what you deploy. The wrong strategy can cause downtime for thousands of users. The right one can make a risky release feel invisible. With 82% of container users running Kubernetes in production, mastering deployment strategies isn’t optional — … Read more
Table of Contents 01 — What is Kubernetes & Why AWS EKS? Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Originally built by Google in 2014, it is now used by almost every major tech company in production environments. Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is AWS’s fully … Read more
Kubernetes air-gapped clusters run in isolated environments without internet access, essential for high-security sectors like defense, finance, and utilities. These setups demand offline preparation of images, packages, and configurations to bootstrap and maintain clusters securely. What is an Air-Gapped Kubernetes Cluster? Air-gapped means complete network isolation from the internet, preventing external pulls for images or … Read more
Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most critical security layers in any Kubernetes cluster because it decides who can perform which actions on which resources. In many organizations, RBAC is the difference between “one compromised account destroys the cluster” and “blast radius is limited to a small, controlled scope.” This blog will take … Read more
A real-world guide for DevOps engineers who want zero-downtime upgrades and zero post-mortems The Story That Started This Guide The alert came in at 9:47 PM. “API server unreachable.” The on-call engineer opened his laptop to find that the cluster upgrade — which was “just a version bump from 1.27 to 1.28” — had gone completely sideways. The … Read more