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Welcome to Day 25 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll cover canary deployments and feature flags, two essential techniques for safe, controlled software rollouts in Kubernetes.
Welcome to Day 24 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into autoscaling in Kubernetes, focusing on Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler to efficiently manage workloads..
Welcome to Day 23 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on secrets management using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, two powerful tools for securing credentials, API keys, and sensitive data.
Welcome to Day 22 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Backstage, the leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tool, to build service templates and a software catalog for streamlined developer workflows.
Welcome to Day 16 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) and how to build one using Backstage, an open-source platform that enhances developer experience by centralizing documentation, services, APIs, and deployments.
Welcome to Day 19 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll explore Chaos Engineering, its origins with Netflix’s Simian Army, and modern tools like LitmusChaos, Gremlin, and LambdaChaos that help test system resilience.
Welcome to Day 20 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re doing a recap of observability best practices and assembling a basic observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
Welcome to Day 18 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Distributed Tracing using OpenTelemetry, an essential tool for monitoring request flows across microservices.
Welcome to Day 17 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on visualizing Kubernetes metrics with Grafana, creating real-time dashboards to monitor application performance.
Welcome to Day 16 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll explore Prometheus, the go-to tool for monitoring Kubernetes and collecting real-time metrics.