DevOps Blog Archive

A practical OpenTelemetry adoption guide for platform teams: collector architecture on Kubernetes, mapping metrics, logs, and traces to tooling, metadata correlation, and wiring telemetry into SLO-driven alerting.

A practical GKE network design guide for engineering leaders: private cluster control-plane access, VPC-native routing and secondary ranges, Cloud NAT for controlled egress, and layered ingress with network policies for production workloads.

Sharing a Kubernetes cluster across teams is cheap, but unsafe without deliberate isolation. A practical guide to namespace-per-tenant design, RBAC boundaries, resource quotas, network policy, and the Pod Security Standards that make soft multi-tenancy defensible on GKE.

Native Kubernetes rolling updates scale pods but give you no control over blast radius or automatic rollback. A practical Argo Rollouts guide to canary and blue-green strategies, traffic shaping, and metric-driven analysis for safe progressive delivery.

Most cloud migrations fail because every workload gets forced through the same path. The 6Rs — rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retire, and retain — give you a per-workload vocabulary for choosing the cheapest strategy that still meets your goals.