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.
MCP Explained: What It Is and Why It Exists
A breakdown of the Model Context Protocol - the problem it solves, its architecture, and how a tool call actually works under the hood.
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.
Why Your DaemonSet Rolling Update Gets Stuck on hostPort Pods
A breakdown of why DaemonSets using hostPort can get stuck in Pending during rolling updates, and why the default maxSurge/maxUnavailable settings aren't always right for them.
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.
Pod Disruption Budgets Explained: How Kubernetes Protects You From Voluntary Disruptions
What a PodDisruptionBudget actually does, the difference between voluntary and involuntary disruptions, how the eviction API respects it, and the mistakes that quietly break node drains and cluster upgrades.