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Your GitOps Pipeline is a Lie Until You Prove Otherwise

1d ago · 10 min read · You use ArgoCD. Your manifests live in Git. Every change is a PR. You feel secure. But here's the question nobody in the GitOps world wants to answer: how do you know the image running in your cluster

When CoreDNS Falls Silent : A Kubernetes DNS Disaster Story & The Playbook That Saved Us

May 12 · 17 min read · A real-world incident narrative + definitive best practices for CoreDNS at scale Prologue: The Calm Before the Storm The cluster was healthy. 312 pods spread across 24 nodes. CoreDNS two replicas, d

Argo Rollouts in Production: Canary, AnalysisTemplates, and the Gotchas Nobody Documents

May 5 · 20 min read · It started with a routine Tuesday deploy. Nothing fancy, a small config change to our ingress controller across a few clusters. We'd done this a hundred times. Standard values.yaml modification and th

LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack: The AI Package That Turned Into a Fork Bomb (But Stole Your AWS Keys First)

Mar 25 · 11 min read · Why I run my AI agents in isolated infra , and why March 24th proved me right I get a lot of raised eyebrows when I tell people I run all my AI agent experiments in isolated infrastructure. Separate

Terraform vs Crossplane: The Ultimate DevOps Infrastructure Showdown

Jan 20 · 4 min read · The Infrastructure Management Odyssey Imagine it's 2 AM, and you are in a digital wrestling match with cloud configurations that seem to have a mind of their own. As a DevOps engineer, I've been there, drowning in a sea of manual deployments, battlin...