🚪 Introduction: The Container Illusion Containers are not magic. They don’t run in a “box.” They’re not virtual machines. They’re just Linux processes — with a twist. If you’re working with Docker or Kubernetes and your understanding stops at pod.yaml and...
📟 Base64, FreeAgent, and a Timeline You Can Decode When people ask how long I’ve been in tech, I usually just smile and say: “Let’s put it this way – I still remember Base64 from the days of FreeAgent newsgroup readers.” No ChatGPT, no slick web interfaces. Just raw...
The most interesting infrastructure projects I’ve worked on had one thing in common:They weren’t driven by hype — they were driven by necessity. ⚙️ Whether it’s a classic LAMP stack, EC2-based deployments or container orchestration with Kubernetes — the real...
One of the most humbling experiences in infrastructure work? Realizing that Kubernetes doesn’t solve complexity — it just gives you a framework to manage it. 🧩 Over the last years, I’ve moved from classic server setups and LAMP-based stacks into containerized...
🚀 From VMware to Containers: Understanding Linux Namespaces and cgroups for DevOps Engineers 🧠Introduction So you’re coming from a VMware ESXi world. You’re used to spinning up VMs, assigning CPU, RAM, storage, virtual NICs, and keeping everything nicely...
RDP over Port 80, Load Balancer NAT Rules, Backup Snapshots, and Basic Hardening – Step-by-Step When you’re deploying a Windows Server in Microsoft Azure for remote access, the typical approach involves using RDP over the default port 3389. But what if you want...
Introduction: The Year Is 2025 — Why Does AWS Still Feel Like 2012? Cloud computing was supposed to free us. From on-prem servers, from hardware costs, from complexity. In many ways, it did — but somewhere along the road, Amazon Web Services (AWS) stopped being a...
Running a Local LLM on AWS Without Losing Your Mind (Mostly) If you’ve ever tried doing anything moderately unusual in AWS — like running a local LLM such as DeepSeek inside a secure EC2 instance — you probably know the pain I’m about to describe. What...
Docker has become a fundamental tool in modern DevOps workflows — from local development to CI/CD pipelines and production deployments. If you’re working with Ubuntu and want to set up Docker properly, here’s a clear, step-by-step guide to get you up and running...
🚨 AWS CloudShell in 2025 — still stuck in 2005? I just wanted to spin up a simple Ubuntu EC2 instance, get my .pem key, and SSH in from my Mac.No fancy stuff. No edge case. Just a routine DevOps task. But what should’ve taken 60 seconds turned into: invisible UI...
