J(Johnpaul (Ndubuisi) Ugwuloinugwulo.hashnode.devSecuring Production Pipelines in Azure with Workload Identity Federation + OIDCBackground Throughout my career advising and implementing cloud infrastructure for clients, few topics generate as much operational anxiety as secret management. I have worked with numerous organizati2d ago·12 min read
ARAditya Raj Singhinblog.adityarajsingh.inDay 10 of #30DaysOfTerraform: Writing Smarter Terraform with Expressions#30daysofawsterraform By the time I reached Day 10, Terraform had already stopped feeling like a tool for “just creating resources.” Days 8 and 9 changed that mindset completely. Meta-arguments taught2d ago·5 min read
AWAnthony Watinblog.avangards.ioAWS Control Tower Proactive Controls for Terraform: A Proof of ConceptExplore AWS Control Tower proactive controls, why they don’t work with Terraform, and a proof of concept that attempts to make them work. Introduction As a Terraform advocate and an AWS consultant who3d ago·16 min read
ARAditya Raj Singhinblog.adityarajsingh.inTerraform on AWS: Deploy a Highly Available Django App with Auto Scaling and Load BalancingIn the world of cloud computing, terms like “highly available” and “scalable architecture” often float around in whitepapers, certification courses, and online tutorials. They’re buzzwords that sound 4d ago·8 min read
ARAditya Raj Singhinblog.adityarajsingh.inLeaving Resources Running Was My First Cloud MistakeI Didn’t Understand Cloud Costs Until Resources Kept Running A few months ago, I signed up for an AWS account. The promise of the cloud felt almost magical — servers I could spin up in minutes, no har5d ago·4 min read
MMatheusinreleaserun.hashnode.devIaC Security in 2026: Terraform, Checkov, and Cloud Drift DetectionEvery major cloud breach in the past five years shares a common thread: misconfiguration. Not zero-day exploits, not sophisticated nation-state malware -- misconfiguration. An S3 bucket left public. A security group with 0.0.0.0/0 ingress on port 22....6d ago·21 min read
HCHarshwardhan Choudharyineasyharshmods.hashnode.devMigrating MySQL to PostgreSQL with Zero Downtime Using AWS DMS — A Full WalkthroughI recently built a demo that walks through something that scares most engineering teams: migrating a live production database from MySQL to PostgreSQL without taking the application down. Not a toy miFeb 20·19 min read
FEFrancis Eytan Dortortindortort.hashnode.devAgentic AI is reintroducing ClickOpsWe spent the better part of a decade eliminating ClickOps. We replaced console dashboards with Terraform modules, SSH sessions with CI/CD pipelines, and ad hoc patches with peer-reviewed pull requests. Infrastructure as Code became the standard becau...6d ago·9 min read
HHimanshuinkubeboiii.hashnode.devCracked DevOps SME Intern Role at Scaler (On-Campus, 2026) — My Interview Experience!Securing an internship in DevOps in 2026 wasn’t something I had perfectly planned. In fact, if I had to describe it honestly, it felt like one of those moments where people say, “You have to be at theFeb 19·12 min read
Bbabluinbablu.hashnode.devMastering GitOps on GKE: A Guide to Deploying ArgoCDgraph LR subgraph Local_Environment [Your Local Machine] A[Developer/Admin] end subgraph GCP_Cloud [Google Cloud Platform] subgraph Public_Subnet [Public Subnet] B[Bastion Host] end subgraph P...Feb 19·13 min read
