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Long-form writing on DevOps, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. No fluff. No hot takes. Just the stuff that matters from 8 years of running production systems. By Gaurav Kaushal, Senior DevOps Engineer.

8+ Years in production
AWS Primary cloud
K8s Daily driver
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Why Your Terraform Modules Are Too Big — And How to Fix Them
Most IaC problems aren't about syntax. They're about scope. A practical guide to module boundaries that scale with your team.
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Kubernetes Troubleshooting: Common Errors and How to Fix Them
CrashLoopBackOff, Pending pods, ImagePullBackOff — a production-focused guide to diagnosing the most common Kubernetes errors.
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GitHub Actions vs Jenkins: An Honest Comparison from Production
Both work. The question is which works for your situation. A no-hype comparison based on real migration experience.
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Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana on EKS: A Production Guide
Install kube-prometheus-stack, configure alerts, and build the observability foundation your cluster needs before it scales.
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Dockerfile Best Practices for Production
Most Dockerfiles work in dev but create security and performance problems in production. Here's what actually matters at scale.
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AWS Cost Optimization: How to Cut Cloud Spend by 20% Systematically
From tagging and right-sizing to S3 lifecycle policies and NAT Gateway audits. The process that actually works.
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ArgoCD and GitOps: A Production Setup Guide
Repo structure, Application manifests, progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts, and the mistakes that will bite you if you skip them.
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Ansible for Server Automation at Scale: A Practical Guide
Project structure, idempotent tasks, automated OS patching with serial execution, and running it all from CI/CD pipelines.
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Building a DevSecOps Pipeline: Security That Doesn't Slow Teams Down
SAST, SCA, container scanning, and secret detection wired into CI/CD in a way teams actually use — not bypass.
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AWS & Cloud
Architecture, cost, services
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Kubernetes
EKS, Helm, GitOps
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Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Ansible
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CI/CD
Pipelines, GitOps, ArgoCD
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Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
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DevSecOps
Security, compliance, IAM
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FinOps
Cost governance, optimisation
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Career & Teams
Mentorship, growth, process