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Continue reading →: AWS Cost Visibility Guide for FinOps Success
Cost visibility is the foundation of the FinOps Inform stage, enabling organizations to understand where cloud spending occurs and who’s responsible for it. In this hands-on guide, we’ll build a complete cost visibility solution on AWS by deploying tagged resources with Terraform and creating department-specific dashboards in AWS Cost Explorer.…
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Continue reading →: From Commit to Production: Building My First Multi-Stage CI/CD PipelineI pushed to main and watched production go live instantly—no tests, no review, no guardrails. In that moment of panic, I learned the difference between automation… and responsible automation. Overview Think of this like a factory assembly line for code: Key insight: The same container that passes all tests in…
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Continue reading →: Enhance Infrastructure Security with Terraform’s Sentinel PoliciesAfter months of automating application deployments and writing tests for application code, We can have this realization: infrastructure code had zero quality controls. One careless merge to main could create unencrypted storage accounts, expose sensitive data, or rack up unexpected cloud costs. While reviewing an incident where a developer accidentally…
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Continue reading →: How I Built a Bulletproof CI/CD Pipeline (And You Can Too!)By this point, I had already deployed infrastructure, automated secrets, and secured costs. But one major question remained:“How do I know that what I deploy is reliable and secure every single time?” That’s where test automation and quality gates came in. What We’re Building A simple Flask web application with…
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Continue reading →: Securing Automation: Managing Secrets in DevOpsThere’s a moment in every engineer’s life when a secret shows up in a repo and your stomach drops.For me, that was the day I realized automation must be secure by default not an afterthought. Today’s project is about making secrets invisible to humans and auditable to systems. Why This…
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Continue reading →: FinOps Cost Governance at Scale with Azure Policy & TerraformLearning that cost control isn’t just a finance thing, it’s a DevOps responsibility. Using Terraform and Azure Policy, I automated governance so no resource slips through without a tag. It felt like I was bringing real discipline into the cloud just like CI/CD, but for cost control. What Problem Are…
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Continue reading →: Building a System That Never Goes DownPicture this! You’ve built a beautiful website. It’s fast, it’s functional, and you’re proud of it. Then one day, the server crashes. Your site goes dark. Users can’t access it. Panic sets in. This happened to me (in a test environment, thankfully), and it taught me something crucial: One server…
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Continue reading →: Azure Storage, Data Lake & FinOps Tracking: A Beginner’s GuideAfter achieving high availability with Load Balancing and VM Scale Sets, I realized another layer of DevSecOps maturity visibility.Security and performance mean little if you can’t see where your resources (and costs) are going.That’s where Azure Storage and Data Lake enter the picture not just as a place to store…
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Continue reading →: Enhancing Azure Security with Load Balancer and VMSSAfter locking down my Azure network with Bastion, I realized security was only half of the equation. What good is a fortress if your users can’t reach it when demand spikes? That’s when I dove into Azure Load Balancer and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) the backbone of high availability…
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Continue reading →: Azure Backup & Site Recovery: A Beginner’s Guide to Business ContinuityPicture this: It’s Monday morning. You grab your coffee, open Azure Portal, and… your production VM is gone. Deleted. Corrupted. Or worse, your entire region is down. Without a backup and recovery strategy, you’re looking at: But with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, you can restore your VM in…
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