$ Building Reliable Systems

Thoughts on site reliability engineering, infrastructure, monitoring, and keeping production running smoothly.

Articles

Apr 7, 2026 · 15 min read

Disaster Recovery

From single-node to HA — deploying Grafana via GitOps, managing secrets with AWS Secret Manager, handling TLS with Istio, and preventing config drift with ArgoCD on DigitalOcean Kubernetes.

Kubernetes DigitalOcean GitOps HA SRE
Mar 14, 2026 · 8 min read

Mistakes I Made Along My Journey with Kubernetes

Lessons learned the hard way — from skipping Services, avoiding docs, falling into tutorial hell, and not knowing how Helm actually works in production.

Kubernetes DevOps SRE Lessons Learned
Feb 19, 2026 · 8 min read

Terraform for Beginner

Why you should learn the AWS console before Terraform, how to structure your .tf files, and how modules help you apply the DRY principle.

Terraform AWS IaC Beginner
Feb 17, 2026 · 12 min read

Kubernetes for Beginner

A compact guide to getting started with Kubernetes — from Docker basics to Deployments, Services, Namespaces, Secrets, and the kubectl commands you'll use everyday.

Kubernetes Docker DevOps Beginner