Documenting the journey of building scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and automation from theory to production.
Kubernetes is very good at telling you when something is down. It's much less useful at telling you when something is quietly getting worse. There's a class of failure where a backend is still running
This is a companion to my previous article on inheriting and fixing a broken EFK stack. That article focused on what breaks in production. This one focuses on the configuration decisions that prevent
Most EFK articles start with a clean environment and walk you through a perfect setup. This one doesn't. This article is about inheriting a running EFK stack on AKS that looked healthy, discovering it
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring Kubernetes policy enforcement and GitOps to deepen my understanding beyond traditional CI/CD and infrastructure automation. As part of this, I built a smal
When a user types https://seqas.online into a browser, what actually happens before the application appears on the screen? Understanding the entire request lifecycle is far more valuable than memoriz
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the backbone of modern DevOps. Among the IaC tools, Terraform stands out because of its modularity, state management, and cloud-agnostic design. In this post, I’ll walk through a Terraform project where I provi...
In modern cloud-native application design, traffic management and service exposure are critical aspects of system reliability, scalability, and security. Kubernetes (K8s) offers native primitives for service exposure, and among them, Ingress is one o...
Introduction In this blog post, we will explore how to configure and use advanced plugins with the Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) on an Amazon EKS cluster. Specifically, we will delve into JWT Token, Request Transform, and AWS Lambda plugins. These pl...
In this blog post, we’ll walk through the process of creating an AWS Lambda function that identifies unused AWS resources, specifically focusing on EBS volume snapshots older than one year. We’ll use various AWS services and tools, including Python w...
