Stop waking up to restart services. By combining Blue/Green deployments with Ansible health checks, I built infrastructure that diagnoses and heals itself.
Infrastructure that Mends Itself: Proactive vs Reactive Ops Read More »
Infrastructure is fragile, but your setup shouldn’t be. Discover how I combined Terraform, Ansible, Restic, and Watchtower to build a self-healing “Survival System” that can rise from the ashes of a total server meltdown in under ten minutes without me lifting a finger.
Rise from the Ashes: My Automated Disaster Recovery Setup Read More »
Provisioning a server with Terraform is high-level magic, but configuring it by hand afterward is just manual labor in disguise. Here is how I used Ansible to automate my configuration, manage my cron jobs, and finally get a good night’s sleep knowing my disaster recovery plan actually works.
Teaching Old Servers New Tricks with Ansible Playbooks Read More »
Let’s be honest: clicking through a cloud provider’s console is fine for your first “Hello World,” but it’s a nightmare for anything you actually care about. Here is why I stopped clicking buttons like a trained pigeon and started finding peace in a `.tf` file.
Spinning Servers Faster Than I Can Regret My Decisions (via Terraform) Read More »
You’ve automated your infrastructure and your configuration, but if you aren’t backing up your app volumes, you’re still just one bad day away from a total meltdown. Here is how I completed the “Kickass Trinity” by using Restic and Backblaze B2 to create a disaster recovery plan that actually works.
Stop Praying, Start Backing Up: Restic for the Modern Operator Read More »
Beyond the static dashboards lies a deeper truth. Infrastructure is a living organism that speaks through metrics and logs. Discover how to build a “Third Eye” using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana to move from reactive troubleshooting to eldritch-level observability, ensuring your “future self” never has to fight in the dark.
Monitoring is the Third Eye: Beyond the Dashboard Read More »
