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28 articles tagged DevOps, newest first.
Zabbix vs Prometheus: Which Monitoring Tool Should You Pick?
Zabbix vs Prometheus compared: pull vs push, Kubernetes fit, alerting, dashboards and storage, plus which tool suits cloud-native or traditional setups.
YAML Is Breaking Observability in OpenTelemetry Pipelines
As OpenTelemetry pipelines grow more complex, YAML is turning from simple configuration into a source of fragility, ambiguity, and operational drag.
Datadog Sales Pressure: When Monitoring Gets Pushy
Online complaints about relentless Datadog outreach show how a monitoring tool can lose goodwill long before the product itself loses relevance.
The Day Objects Took Down the AWS UAE Region and Shook DevOps Faith
A fire caused by objects striking an AWS data center in the UAE disrupted ME-CENTRAL-1 services and reopened the multi-AZ vs multi-region debate.
How to Run a Java Monolith on Kubernetes Without NodePort Hacks
A practical production guide to running a Java monolith on Kubernetes without fragile NodePort duct tape.
What Actually Load Balances Production Traffic in Kubernetes
How Kubernetes Services, Ingress controllers, MetalLB and service meshes split the work of load balancing, and where TLS terminates in production.
Should You Use CPU Limits in Kubernetes Production?
A grounded take on when CPU limits help, when they hurt, and how to choose based on workload behavior.
2,000+ Service Accounts, No Owners: The Multi-Cloud IAM Problem
Why unmanaged machine identities across AWS, Azure, and GCP become a security and governance crisis at scale.
Real Kubernetes Production Failures From Control Plane to IPs
A field report on real Kubernetes production failures and the human factors that trigger them.
Rancher Was the Best Kubernetes Dashboard Until Pricing
Rancher gave platform teams one calm login for twenty clusters. Then the Rancher price jumped after SUSE, and there's still no obvious replacement.
Fix a Slow CI Pipeline: Cutting 58 Minutes to 14 by Fixing QA
A team cut its CI pipeline from 58 to 14 minutes by tiering tests, parallelizing, fixing flaky tests and tracking retries instead of buying hardware.
AI Didn't Kill DevOps, but It Made the Stakes Way Higher
AI speeds up DevOps work, including the mistakes. Where AI helps, where it adds risk in production, and why humans must stay in the loop.
Real Stories from Kubernetes Admins Keeping Production Stable
Kubernetes admins share war stories: SELinux mandates from the CEO, vendor add-ons, Vault and ESO without docs, and homelab crash loops.
Why Kubernetes 1.35 Feels Like a Security-First Release
Kubernetes 1.35 drops cgroup v1, hardens Kubelet certificate validation, adds constrained impersonation and turns on user namespaces by default.
Zero-Downtime Deployments Without Kubernetes
Zero-downtime deploys without Kubernetes: load balancers, blue-green, symlink releases, SIGTERM draining, Docker setups and safe database migrations.
Opsgenie Alternatives: What DevOps Teams Switch To
Why DevOps teams are leaving Opsgenie and where they go: Incident.io, Datadog On-Call, FireHydrant, Rootly, JSM Alerts and smaller alerting tools.
AWS Backup Adds Native Amazon EKS Support: No More Backup Scripts
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS natively, backing up cluster state and persistent volumes without custom scripts or Velero. What users think so far.
Claude, Copilot, and Chaos: How AI Is Hollowing Out Tech Teams
An AI coding trial turned into a reason to cut DevOps hiring, and engineers on Reddit say juniors and the talent pipeline are paying for it.
Podman vs. Docker: Better on Paper, Losing in Practice
Podman is rootless, daemonless and secure, yet Docker still dominates. Why compatibility gaps, docs, Compose vs Quadlets and stability keep Docker ahead.
Why Kubernetes Still Lacks Native Live Container Migration
Why Kubernetes still can't live migrate containers, what CAST AI's CRIU-based migration for EKS does, and the case for making it a native feature.
Ephemeral Kubernetes Namespaces for Dev: Smart or Scaling Nightmare?
Per-PR ephemeral Kubernetes namespaces for dev and test: cleanup with TTLs and CronJobs, shared vs fresh databases, vClusters and other tradeoffs.
Grafana Still Wins: Lessons From a $40K Monitoring Tool Failure
A DevOps team spent $40K on an AI monitoring platform, logged in 47 times in a year and kept using Grafana. What went wrong with tool adoption.
When GitOps Meets Emergency Fixes: ArgoCD Operational Lessons
GitOps can be clean in theory but difficult under production pressure. A practical look at ArgoCD emergency-fix workflows and operational tradeoffs.
From Enterprise Bloat to OSS: A Kubernetes Cost-Cutting Story
A team saved $100,000 by swapping an overpriced enterprise API gateway for Kong OSS, then kept finding the same kind of bloat in other stacks.
Who Needs Blue-Green? Tales From Live Kubernetes Cluster Upgrades
Blue-green is the gold standard, yet plenty of teams upgrade Kubernetes clusters in place and live to tell the tale. How that goes in practice.
Zabbix vs Checkmk vs Prometheus: Lightweight Monitoring
Zabbix vs Checkmk vs Prometheus, tested for lightweight monitoring: setup effort, auto-discovery, and which tool actually fits a small team's stack.
Kubernetes Docs: Surprisingly Good or Just the Best of a Bad Bunch?
Why engineers praise the official Kubernetes docs and cheat sheet, where they fall short under pressure, and how they compare with AWS, Cisco and Oracle.
CUE, Kyaml, and the Battle to Fix YAML: Devs Are Over It
Engineers are tired of brittle YAML. How CUE, Kyaml, Jsonnet, Dhall and KDL try to add validation, structure and modularity to configuration.