1 month ago
Set up a multi-region deployment on GCP. Latency for Asian users improved by 200ms! Used Cloud Spanner for globally distributed database with strong consistency. The complexity is real, but for our global user base, it was necessary. Traffic routing with Cloud Load Balancing works perfectly. #gcp #cloud #performance #globalinfrastructure
2 months ago
Disaster recovery drill successful! RTO of 15 minutes achieved with our backup strategy. Tested full region failover on AWS. Route53 health checks trigger automatic DNS failover. Cross-region RDS replicas were the key. Documented everything and trained the team. Sleep better knowing we're prepared! #disasterrecovery #cloud #backup #businesscontinuity
20 days ago
Ansible playbooks for configuration management. Consistent servers across all environments! Idempotent tasks mean running playbooks multiple times is safe. Vault handles secrets encryption. Integrated with our CI/CD for automatic configuration drift detection. Infrastructure as code all the way down! #ansible #automation #devops #configmanagement
3 months ago
Monitoring stack complete: Prometheus + Grafana + AlertManager. No more surprises in production! Created custom dashboards for each service. Alert fatigue was real at first - tuned thresholds over 2 weeks. Now we get meaningful alerts that actually require action. On-call life improved dramatically! #monitoring #prometheus #grafana #observability
1 month ago
Container security scan found 3 critical vulnerabilities. Always scan before deploying! Integrated Trivy into our CI pipeline. Base image updates are now automated with Dependabot. Created a policy that blocks deployments with HIGH or CRITICAL findings. Security is everyone's responsibility! #security #docker #devops #containersecurity
23 days ago
Set up a multi-region deployment on GCP. Latency for Asian users improved by 200ms! Used Cloud Spanner for globally distributed database with strong consistency. The complexity is real, but for our global user base, it was necessary. Traffic routing with Cloud Load Balancing works perfectly. #gcp #cloud #performance #globalinfrastructure
26 days ago
Kubernetes secrets management with HashiCorp Vault. No more secrets in environment variables! Dynamic secrets with automatic rotation. AWS IAM authentication for pods. The External Secrets Operator syncs Vault secrets to K8s. Audit logs show who accessed what and when. Security team approved! #vault #security #kubernetes #secrets
3 months ago
CloudFront CDN reduced our bandwidth costs by 40%. Cache invalidation is the only hard part! Set up origin shield to reduce load on our servers. Custom cache policies per content type. The edge locations make a huge difference for global users. Just remember: there are only two hard things in CS... #cdn #cloudfront #aws #performance
3 months ago
Kubernetes cluster is finally production-ready. Auto-scaling handles traffic spikes beautifully! Set up HPA based on custom metrics from our application. During Black Friday, the cluster scaled from 10 to 45 pods seamlessly. Zero downtime despite 10x normal traffic. Worth every hour of setup! #kubernetes #k8s #devops #autoscaling
3 months ago
Ansible playbooks for configuration management. Consistent servers across all environments! Idempotent tasks mean running playbooks multiple times is safe. Vault handles secrets encryption. Integrated with our CI/CD for automatic configuration drift detection. Infrastructure as code all the way down! #ansible #automation #devops #configmanagement