2h ago · 9 min read · TL;DR: How DevOps engineers and infrastructure leads in European tech companies use Claude Code to automate CI/CD pipelines and IaC. DevOps engineers at small software companies spend a disproportionate share of their week on pipeline plumbing: writ...
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13h ago · 3 min read · Deploy and Pray Our deployment strategy used to be: merge to main, deploy to all pods, watch Slack for complaints. Professional? No. Common? Absolutely. After a particularly bad deploy took down checkout for 23 minutes, we implemented canary deployme...
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5d ago · 3 min read · Everything in my CI/CD pipeline was working. Until it wasn’t. The build failed.No clear error. Just a red pipeline. At first glance, it looked like a typical Jenkins issue. Something in the pipeline m
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Apr 10 · 5 min read · I'll never forget the time our API went down due to a minor code change, taking our entire system with it. It was a painful lesson in the importance of API testing. But here's the thing: API testing isn't just for large apps - it's essential for any ...
Join discussionApr 6 · 10 min read · Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is the practice of automatically testing and deploying code changes. Instead of manually running tests, SSHing into a server, and triggering a deployment, a CI/CD pipeline handles every step fr...
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Apr 5 · 7 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. I deployed a permission set for our data engineers five times before it worked correctly. The first deployment: S3 reads worked, Glue Data Catalog reads worked. Athena queries failed — the query engine need...
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Apr 4 · 3 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. Every time I finished writing a blog post, I had to do this: cd sites/graycloudarch hugo --minify aws s3 sync public/ s3://graycloudarch-website --delete aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id...
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Apr 4 · 6 min read · We've all been there. You push a commit, the pipeline goes green. You push the exact same commit again — red. No code changes, no config changes, just the CI gods deciding today isn't your day. I spent the better part of last month chasing down inter...
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Apr 2 · 11 min read · Nobody tells you this when you start learning DevOps: reading tutorials is not practice. You can watch five hours of Kubernetes videos and still get confused when a pod crashes in front of you. You ca
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Mar 31 · 3 min read · CI/CD pipelines fail constantly. Tests break, deployments blow up, linting fails on a Friday evening. The build notification lands in Slack, everyone ignores it, and it sits there until Monday morning. What if the thing waiting on the other side of t...
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