Should You Hire DevOps Engineers or Use a Managed DevOps Provider?
A decision guide for engineering leaders: the full cost of an in-house DevOps function, how to compare it fairly with managed and hybrid models, and how to avoid lock-in.
Practical guides, tutorials, and deep-dives from our certified engineers. Real commands, real YAML, real trade-offs.
A decision guide for engineering leaders: the full cost of an in-house DevOps function, how to compare it fairly with managed and hybrid models, and how to avoid lock-in.
How to upgrade EKS, AKS and GKE clusters safely: plan and test first, move the control plane one minor version at a time, then roll nodes with PDBs in place.
End-to-end tutorial for GitOps with ArgoCD on EKS: installation, Application setup, sync policies, ApplicationSets for multi-env, Sealed Secrets, RBAC, and notifications.
A clear-eyed look at Managed DevOps: what it is, when it makes financial sense vs hiring in-house, what a good provider SLA looks like, and red flags to avoid.
Step-by-step guide to moving from manual AWS console configuration to Terraform IaC: importing resources, structuring modules, managing state, and automating with CI/CD.
Everything you need for Azure DevOps YAML pipelines: multi-stage setup, environments, Key Vault integration, templates, self-hosted agents, and deployment strategies.
Production-grade Prometheus alerting rules covering pod crashes, resource saturation, latency SLOs, and certificate expiry, with complete PrometheusRule YAML.
A production-ready guide to setting up Kubernetes monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack, writing PromQL, configuring Alertmanager, and building useful Grafana dashboards.
Concept-by-concept guide to migrating CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, with real Jenkinsfile-to-YAML conversions and common gotchas.
Real-world CI/CD patterns covering pipeline stages, caching, secrets, SAST, deployment strategies, and DORA metrics, with YAML examples for all three tools.
Practical, numbered techniques to cut your EKS spend, from right-sizing nodes to Karpenter, Spot, and namespace quotas.
A complete reference for running production Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, from first cluster to hardened, cost-optimised platform.
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