Logs from
the edge

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Building Production-Grade DevOps Infrastructure: A Complete Journey

A detailed account of building a complete DevOps platform from scratch over three weeks, including every problem encountered and solution implemented. ---...

DEVOPS 2026.03.14 • 27 MIN_READ

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Why My Analytics Were Lying to Me (And How Kubernetes Was to Blame)

I had 3,648 page views in my database. But my unique visitors count was stuck at 1. Every single visitor looked like they came from the same IP address:...

DEVOPS 2026.03.14 • 7 MIN_READ

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How I Completed My GitOps Pipeline with ArgoCD

I had Kubernetes running. Deployments were working. But I was still SSHing into the server and running `kubectl apply` manually after every build. That's...

DEVOPS 2026.03.14 • 8 MIN_READ

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How I Added Slack Alerting to My Kubernetes Homelab

Deploying to Kubernetes felt great. Two pods running, zero downtime deployments, automatic restarts. Everything was working. But there was one problem — I...

DEVOPS 2026.03.13 • 7 MIN_READ

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How I Deployed My Portfolio to Kubernetes at Midnight

It was midnight. My site was already running on Docker on an Oracle Cloud server. The CI/CD pipeline was working. Monitoring was set up. By any reasonable...

DEVOPS 2026.03.13 • 8 MIN_READ

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Deploying a Containerized E-commerce App on AWS EC2: A Real DevOps Walkthrough

Most tutorials stop at "it works on my machine." This one doesn't. This project was about understanding the *entire deployment flow* from scratch — not just...

DEVOPS 2026.03.11 • 8 MIN_READ

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How a Dead VPN Tunnel Took Down My Deployment Pipeline

It was the same night I had just fixed the Harbor IP issue. I was feeling good — pipeline was green, Harbor was back up, code was pushing. I triggered a...

DEVOPS 2026.03.11 • 6 MIN_READ

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How a DHCP IP Change Silently Broke My Entire CI/CD Pipeline

It was a regular Tuesday. I had just finished building a new feature for my portfolio site, wrote a clean commit message, and pushed to Gitea. I leaned...

DEVOPS 2026.03.11 • 7 MIN_READ

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Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Drone CI and Harbor

Getting your code from your laptop to production automatically is one of the most satisfying things you can set up as a DevOps engineer. In this post I'll...

DEVOPS 2026.03.08 • 4 MIN_READ

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The Day I Learned localhost Isn't Always localhost: A Docker Networking Journey

I spent 3 hours debugging why my CI/CD pipeline couldn't connect to my Git server on localhost:3001. The answer changed how I think about containers...

DEVOPS 2026.03.05 • 6 MIN_READ

THE_WRITER

Building distributed systems, breaking production, and writing the logs to tell the tale.

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