Explore infrastructure automation, deployments and operational workflows. Learn about configuration management, scheduled jobs, integrations and architecture choices for production systems.
DevOps automation
You open the ECS console, click into a service, and suddenly the question gets real. Which file decides the image, the CPU, the memory, the log path, the IAM access, and whether the task even starts on Fargate or EC2? That file is the ECS task definition, and once the
DevOps automation
A familiar pattern shows up right before teams decide they need Terraform infrastructure automation. A service needs a quick change. Someone logs into a box, edits a setting, restarts a process, and gets production stable again. Later that day, another engineer tries to understand why staging no longer matches production,
DevOps automation
GitOps is a declarative operating model where Git stores the desired state for infrastructure and applications, serves as the single source of truth, creates a complete audit trail, and drives automated reconciliation. The term was created in 2017, and by 2025 GitOps research was already measuring adoption at scale across
DevOps automation
Caddy is a web server and reverse proxy that can manage HTTPS certificates automatically. A reliable production setup needs a clear configuration path, persistent certificate storage, a reload procedure, and checks that distinguish a running proxy from a healthy application. This guide starts with those essentials, then covers Docker, reverse
DevOps automation
A cron job is a scheduled task that runs automatically on Linux at fixed intervals, every minute, daily at 3 AM, or on the last Friday of every month. The cron daemon handles the scheduling, running quietly in the background like a personal assistant that never sleeps. System administrators rely
DevOps automation
Your Kubernetes cron jobs are probably failing silently right now, and you have no idea. You migrate your perfectly good cron jobs to Kubernetes, pat yourself on the back for being "cloud native," and then discover weeks later that your database backups haven't run since the