Blog

Building better platforms

Technical writing on Kubernetes, delivery workflows, cloud foundations, observability, and the systems around modern platform engineering.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes autoscaling and scheduled scaling with HPA

Scale Kubernetes on demand and on a schedule, so idle nodes stop costing you overnight.

Kubernetes

CLI tools and shell tips that take the typing out of everyday Kubernetes work.

Cloud Foundations

Manage multiple AWS accounts with OpenTofu/Terraform, from the simplest setup up to AWS Control Tower AFT.

Security

Learn how to protect your ALB with AWS WAF and CloudFront.

Networking

Resolve private Route53 records from inside an EKS cluster by pointing CoreDNS at the VPC resolver.

Delivery Workflows

Quickly launch a test-friendly Jenkins instance in Docker, maintain configuration between restarts, and safely trial new features.

Infrastructure as Code

Quick-start guide to managing Cloudflare infrastructure with OpenTofu or Terraform.

Troubleshooting

Complete guide to diagnosing and fixing the most common pod deployment failures

Security

Zero trust architecture in Kubernetes, from implementation and policy to observability.