--- title: "Sonal Kumar (@Sonal98) | Hashnode" description: "Working as a DevOps. Keen to read and keep learning. Read the latest articles by Sonal Kumar on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@Sonal98" --- @Sonal98 # Sonal Kumar @Sonal98 · Joined May 2024 Working as a DevOps. Keen to read and keep learning. ### [Using Datadog Bits Investigation to explain pod restart alerts](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/using-datadog-bits-investigation-to-explain-pod-restart-alerts?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) On-call alerts are fast. Finding the cause is not. A pod restart message tells you that a pod restarted. It does not tell you whether the node was drained, whether a downstream connection failed becau 5 min read · [devopswork.hashnode.dev](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/using-datadog-bits-investigation-to-explain-pod-restart-alerts?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Oct 25](https://hashnode.com/posts/using-datadog-bits-investigation-to-explain-pod-restart-alerts/6ade698a0dd6024af3309b87) ### [Prompt engineering AI on infrastructure work](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/prompt-engineering-ai-on-infrastructure-work?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Most of my week is Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. The work is specific: a plan that looks clean but hides drift, a gRPC path that behaves differently under long-lived connections, a pipeline order th 5 min read · [devopswork.hashnode.dev](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/prompt-engineering-ai-on-infrastructure-work?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Sep 26](https://hashnode.com/posts/prompt-engineering-ai-on-infrastructure-work/6ab81c4543fd661ad3f6b5d8) ### [AWS Load Balancer Controller QnA](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/aws-load-balancer-controller-qna?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) what is aws load balancer controller. This is just another application running inside your EKS cluster. Its use and need. When do we use it. How it helps. Is eks aws lb controller same as load balanc 13 min read · [devopswork.hashnode.dev](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/aws-load-balancer-controller-qna?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jul 15](https://hashnode.com/posts/aws-load-balancer-controller-qna/6a576a1a34298e000e9c92d5) ### [The Silent Infrastructure Drift That Terraform Couldn't See](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/the-silent-infrastructure-drift-that-terraform-couldn-t-see?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) How a Kubernetes immutable field, a 6-year-old Terraform SDK bug, and an unmaintained community provider combined to create invisible state drift — and the DevOps detective work that uncovered it. It 10 min read · [devopswork.hashnode.dev](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/the-silent-infrastructure-drift-that-terraform-couldn-t-see?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jun 30](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-silent-infrastructure-drift-that-terraform-couldn-t-see/6a4385669f8535c9d8713f52) ### [Network Policy Assignment](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/network-policy-assignment?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Following is an assignment of creating a network policy from the following instructions. Instructions : The assignment requires you to create a YAML file for a network policy in Kubernetes that meets 2 min read · [devopswork.hashnode.dev](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/network-policy-assignment?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [May 30](https://hashnode.com/posts/network-policy-assignment/6a1b487a860ed170819b7843)