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Practical notes for better infrastructure decisions.
Guides on delivery, SRE, Kubernetes, cloud, virtualization, automation, and reliability. Written to be clear enough to act on.
What does a DevOps consultant do, and when should you hire one?
What the work involves, the signs it is time to bring one in, when you can wait, and how to judge a good engagement.
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How to reduce alert fatigue on your on-call team
Pages that nobody can act on teach people to ignore pages. A practical way to audit, tier, and tune alerts.
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Terraform vs Ansible: what each is for and how they fit together
They overlap, but they solve different problems. Here is a clear way to decide which one you need, and when to use both.
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Migrating from VMware to Proxmox: what to plan before you move
An inventory-first checklist for teams weighing a move from VMware to Proxmox VE, from feature mapping to cutover and rollback.
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GitOps with Argo CD and Flux: when it helps and how to start
What GitOps actually changes about Kubernetes delivery, how Argo CD and Flux differ, and a low-risk way to begin.
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A Kubernetes production readiness checklist
What to settle before a workload runs on Kubernetes in production, and when a simpler platform is the better call.
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SLOs and error budgets: where SRE starts
A small, concrete way to begin site reliability engineering without a dedicated SRE team.
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Getting started with infrastructure as code
Choose a small, repeatable slice of infrastructure and build confidence from there.
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Why infrastructure backups need restoration testing
A backup is a plan until the restore path has been exercised and documented.
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Choosing between virtualization and public cloud
A grounded framework for comparing control, economics, skills, and operational fit.
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A practical approach to cloud cost optimization
Start with visibility and ownership before reaching for complex optimization tooling.
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What to automate first in a CI/CD pipeline
A practical way to choose the first release steps worth making repeatable.
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