Backing Up and Restoring Redis on Kubernetes
How to backup and restore Redis on Kubernetes using RDB snapshots - and why just copying dump.rdb is not enough.
Blogs
Getting Started with CISO Assistant on Kubernetes
Deploying CISO Assistant via Helm, creating your first superuser, adding users, and how evidence storage actually works.
Grafana Showed My Node Was Out of Memory. It Wasn't.
Two Grafana dashboards, same node, same timestamp - one shows 62 GB used, other shows 10 GB. Both are correct. Here's the full story of how Linux memory actually works and which number you should actually be watching.
Kubernetes Audit Logging: Stages, Levels, and Policy Design
A breakdown of how kube-apiserver audit events actually work - request stages, audit levels, writing policies, and how SREs tune them differently for prod vs dev clusters.
Kubernetes Local Storage: PVs, Nodes, and the WaitForFirstConsumer Trap
Why your pod is stuck in Pending, why it lands on the wrong node, and how WaitForFirstConsumer fixes local storage scheduling for good.
The GNOME Extensions That Made Ubuntu More Fun To Use
A few GNOME extensions that genuinely improved my Ubuntu desktop experience, from useful clipboard history to ridiculous window-burning animations.
Deploying Grafana OnCall in an Air-Gapped Kubernetes Cluster
A step-by-step guide to running Grafana OnCall without any egress to grafana.com — using OCI artifacts, init containers, and Kubernetes secrets to deliver plugins in restricted environments.
Building a Golang backend system with JWT authentication
When creating a website's backend, one very important term we get to hear is JWT authentication. JWT authentication is one of the most popular ways of securing APIs. JWT stands for JSON Web Token and it is an open standard that defines a way for transmitting information between parties as a JSON object and that too securely...
My journey from a CNCF contributor to LFX mentee
Kubernetes Statefulsets
In simplest terms StatefulSets are Kubernetes component that is used specifically for stateful applications. These are workload API object used to manage stateful applications. They manage the deployment and scaling of a set of Pods (Creating more replicas or deleting them), and StatefulSets are also responsible for the ordering and uniqueness of these Pods. StatefulSet was released in the Kubernetes 1.9 release, let see K8s Statefulsets in this article...