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Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & other awesome devops tooling and my experience on them

🎤 I Submitted My First Conference Talk (And Now I Just Wait)

🎤 I Submitted My First Conference Talk (And Now I Just Wait)

The anxiety, the excitement, and everything in between So I did it. I actually did it. After months of telling myself "maybe next year" and approximately one thousand browser tabs open on "how to write a CFP proposal," I finally hit submit on my first conference

From Metric Overload to Victoria: Simplifying My Observability Stack

From Metric Overload to Victoria: Simplifying My Observability Stack

Or: how I stopped worrying and learned to love fewer containers The Problem With "Best Practice" Stacks There's a certain kind of infrastructure creep that happens to every DevOps engineer who's been around long enough. You start with a simple goal — "I want

Validating Docker Builds with .rego Policies: Because "It Works on My Machine" Isn't a Security Strategy

Validating Docker Builds with .rego Policies: Because "It Works on My Machine" Isn't a Security Strategy

We've all been there. It's 2 AM, the CI pipeline is green, and you ship your container to production feeling like a DevOps rockstar. Then Monday morning rolls around and someone discovers that your Dockerfile pulled a base image from some-dude-on-the-internet/totally-legit-node:latest. Oops. In the

DHI Customizations - building base Docker Images without a Dockerfile

DHI Customizations - building base Docker Images without a Dockerfile

Because sometimes the best Dockerfile is no Dockerfile at all. The Never-Ending Quest for Smaller Attack Surfaces One of the biggest challenges in modern infrastructure is minimizing the attack surface. In the container world, that essentially means picking the right base image with the smallest imaginable attack vector. If your

Monitoring Applications with OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy, Loki, Tempo & Mimir — A Complete Self-Hosted Observability Stack

Monitoring Applications with OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy, Loki, Tempo & Mimir — A Complete Self-Hosted Observability Stack

Modern observability tooling makes big promises. Deploy your .NET services into Azure App Services, tick the right boxes, and the platform conveniently hands you metrics, logs, and traces. Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics – they all integrate neatly as long as you never leave the hyperscaler's garden. Move

Your personal offline coding assistant with Docker Model Runner and Zed Editor

Your personal offline coding assistant with Docker Model Runner and Zed Editor

Docker has just released a new build of Docker Desktop for Mac users, featuring an exciting new AI capability called "Docker Model Runner". This feature allows you to run large language models (LLMs) directly on your MacBook as easily as running a Docker container. As someone who isn’

Docker Bake is here!

Docker Bake is here!

Docker just announced that Docker Bake has reached the GA. And that is huge news! As a docker captain and containers fan in general, I've already experimented with it in the past, and in my personal view, it's amazing. In this blog post, I'm