<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alex Parra — Platform Engineer</title><description>Personal website and blog of Alex Parra — Platform Engineer writing about Kubernetes, cloud, DevOps and modernization.</description><link>https://parraletz.space/</link><language>en</language><item><title>The Platform Is the Architecture</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/08-the-platform-is-the-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/08-the-platform-is-the-architecture/</guid><description>The closing post of the series. The thread that connects all six patterns, the evolution from glue spaghetti to platform control plane, and why having architectural vocabulary changes how platform teams make decisions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>Software Architecture</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>sre</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Your Deployment Strategy Shouldn&apos;t Live in Your Pipeline</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/07-your-deployment-strategy-shouldnt-live-in-your-pipeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/07-your-deployment-strategy-shouldnt-live-in-your-pipeline/</guid><description>Hardcoding deployment strategy into pipelines creates a hidden coupling that makes platforms less reliable. The Strategy pattern explains how to make canary, blue/green, and progressive delivery first-class platform concerns.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>GitOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>progressive-delivery</category><category>argo-rollouts</category></item><item><title>The Glue Is the Platform</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/06-the-glue-is-the-platform/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/06-the-glue-is-the-platform/</guid><description>Every platform connects systems that weren&apos;t designed to talk to each other. That connective tissue is glue — and in most platforms, it&apos;s 60-80% of what the team actually builds. Here&apos;s what glue is, where it lives, and how to design it intentionally.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>sre</category><category>integrations</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>A Git Commit Is Not Just a Change. It&apos;s a Command.</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/05-a-git-commit-is-not-just-a-change-its-a-command/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/05-a-git-commit-is-not-just-a-change-its-a-command/</guid><description>Pipelines that run kubectl apply directly are automated but invisible. The Command pattern explains why GitOps is architecturally sound — not just a convention — and what you gain from separating the definition of a change from its execution.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>GitOps</category><category>argocd</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>The Facade Is the Product</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/03-the-facade-is-the-product/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/03-the-facade-is-the-product/</guid><description>Should you expose Kubernetes directly to developers or abstract it? That&apos;s not a tooling debate — it&apos;s a design question. The Facade pattern and the Golden Path concept explain why your platform&apos;s interface is its most important architectural decision.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>developer-experience</category><category>backstage</category><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>internal-developer-platform</category></item><item><title>Your Cluster Is Already Watching. That&apos;s the Observer Pattern.</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/04-your-cluster-is-already-watching-thats-the-observer-pattern/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/04-your-cluster-is-already-watching-thats-the-observer-pattern/</guid><description>Manual reconciliation doesn&apos;t scale. The Kubernetes controller loop is the Observer pattern at cluster scale. Learn how operators, Argo Rollouts, and External Secrets Operator implement this pattern — and how to decide when to write your own.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>sre</category><category>operators</category><category>GitOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Your Platform Provisions Environments. That&apos;s a Factory.</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/02-your-platform-provisions-environments-thats-a-factory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/02-your-platform-provisions-environments-thats-a-factory/</guid><description>Environment provisioning without a clear creation model is slow, inconsistent, and doesn&apos;t scale. The Factory and Builder patterns explain why — and what Crossplane, Backstage, and Terraform modules have in common.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>backstage</category><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>crossplane</category></item><item><title>Design Patterns Are Not a Developer Thing</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/01-design-patterns-are-not-a-developer-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/platform-patterns/01-design-patterns-are-not-a-developer-thing/</guid><description>Platform engineers apply design patterns every day without knowing it. This series bridges the gap between software architecture vocabulary and the real decisions you make in platform engineering.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design Patterns</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>sre</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Por qué Git no es suficiente para ML</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/07-por-que-git-no-es-suficiente-para-ml/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/07-por-que-git-no-es-suficiente-para-ml/</guid><description>bash ml-project/ ├── .git/ ├── src/ │ └── train.py ├── data/ │ └── training.csv 5GB, in Git └── models/ └── model.pkl 2GB, in Git</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>data-science</category><category>Devops</category><category>dvcs</category><category>dataengineering</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Conectando los mundos - Platform Engineering meets ML</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/06-conectando-los-mundos-platform-engineering-meets-ml/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/06-conectando-los-mundos-platform-engineering-meets-ml/</guid><description>Terraform, Helm, GitOps... ¿para entrenar modelos? Sí.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Devops</category><category>terraform</category><category>GitOps</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>mlengineer</category></item><item><title>Environments (dev / staging / prod)</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/05-environments-dev-staging-prod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/05-environments-dev-staging-prod/</guid><description>&quot;Solo necesito cambiar la variable ENV a &apos;prod&apos;&quot; - Spoiler: No</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Time-based vs Event-driven: Por qué no es solo cron vs webhooks</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/04-time-based-vs-event-driven-por-que-no-es-solo-cron-vs-webhooks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/04-time-based-vs-event-driven-por-que-no-es-solo-cron-vs-webhooks/</guid><description>Ayer: qué orquestador usar. Hoy: cuándo ejecutar ese orquestador.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>orchestration</category><category>scheduling</category><category>data-engineering</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Concepto de Pipeline Orquestrador</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/03-concepto-de-pipeline-orquestrador/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/03-concepto-de-pipeline-orquestrador/</guid><description>Airflow, Kubeflow, Prefect, Dagster: La pregunta que todos hacen mal</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>kubernetes</category><category>Devops</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Script vs Pipeline: Por qué tu cronjob no es suficiente</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/02-script-vs-pipeline-por-que-tu-cronjob-no-es-suficiente/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/02-script-vs-pipeline-por-que-tu-cronjob-no-es-suficiente/</guid><description>Ayer te prometí explicar por qué tus herramientas de Platform Engineering no son suficientes para ML. Pero antes, hablemos de cuando alguien de PE pide automatizar o pregunta si ya esta automatizado, </description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Devops</category><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>*Ops to MLOPS</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/01-ops-to-mlops/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/mlops/01-ops-to-mlops/</guid><description>Hace tiempo, cuando algunos de mis compañeros de datos o de AI (como en ese entonces les conocía) se acercaban y nos pedían infraestructura o forma “despliegues que se salian del standard“, siempre no</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MLOps</category><category>Platform Engineering</category></item><item><title>Reflexion: La modernización no empieza con tecnología, empieza con criterio</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/04-modernizacion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/04-modernizacion/</guid><description>Modernizar no es solo tecnología. Es colaboración, criterio y humildad técnica. Reflexiones reales desde la trinchera de plataforma.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>modernization</category><category>platform-engineering</category><category>aws-community-builder</category><category>spanish</category></item><item><title>Manos a la obra: habilitación y ejecución con un mindset de plataforma</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/03-modernizacion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/03-modernizacion/</guid><description>Modernizar no siempre es reescribir en Go y meter todo en Kubernetes.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>modernization</category><category>platform-engineering</category><category>aws-community-builder</category><category>spanish</category></item><item><title>¿Qué modernizar primero? Evalúa con visión de plataforma</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/02-modernizacion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/02-modernizacion/</guid><description>Modernizar todo no siempre es la mejor decisión. Saber qué mover primero puede marcar la diferencia entre el caos y el progreso.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>modernization</category><category>platform-engineering</category><category>aws-community-builder</category><category>spanish</category></item><item><title>¿Por dónde empiezo? Estrategia de modernización desde la perspectiva de un Platform Engineer</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/01-modernizacion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/modernization/01-modernizacion/</guid><description>Modernizar no es solo usar Kubernetes o romper monolitos. Desde la trinchera de un Platform Engineer, modernizar significa entender por qué, planear cómo y habilitar el cambio sin poner en riesgo la operación. En este post exploramos las fases estratégicas de modernización y cómo traducirlas en acciones reales desde plataforma, con ejemplos prácticos, herramientas open source y aprendizajes aplicables al día a día.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>modernization</category><category>platform-engineering</category><category>aws-community-builder</category><category>spanish</category></item><item><title>Day 26: Securing Your Platform with OPA and Trivy</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/26-0-to-platform-eng-day26/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/26-0-to-platform-eng-day26/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 26 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll focus on securing Kubernetes platforms using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for policy enforcement and Trivy for vulnerability scanning..</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>backstage</category></item><item><title>Day 25: Canary Deployments and Feature Flags – Safe Rollouts</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/25-0-to-platform-eng-day25/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/25-0-to-platform-eng-day25/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>flagger</category><category>canary</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>feature flags</category><category>unleash</category></item><item><title>Day 24: Scaling Applications with Kubernetes HPA and Cluster Autoscaler</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/24-0-to-platform-eng-day24/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/24-0-to-platform-eng-day24/</guid><description>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..</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 23: Managing Secrets with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/23-0-to-platform-eng-day23/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/23-0-to-platform-eng-day23/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>backstage</category><category>devsecops</category><category>vault</category></item><item><title>Day 22: Building Templates and Catalogs with Backstage</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/22-0-to-platform-eng-day22/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/22-0-to-platform-eng-day22/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>backstage</category></item><item><title>Day 21: Building Developer Portals with Backstage</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/21-0-to-platform-eng-day21/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/21-0-to-platform-eng-day21/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>backstage</category></item><item><title>Day 19: Chaos Engineering – Building Resilient Systems</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/19-0-to-platform-eng-day19/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/19-0-to-platform-eng-day19/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>grafana</category><category>observability</category><category>chaos engineering</category><category>chaos monkey</category></item><item><title>Day 20: Recap – Creating a Basic Observability Stack</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/20-0-to-platform-eng-day20/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/20-0-to-platform-eng-day20/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>grafana</category><category>observability</category><category>monitoring</category><category>chaos engineering</category></item><item><title>Day 18: Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/18-0-to-platform-eng-day18/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/18-0-to-platform-eng-day18/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>grafana</category><category>observability</category><category>monitoring</category><category>opentelemetry</category><category>tracing</category><category>Distributed Tracing</category></item><item><title>Day 17: Visualizing Data with Grafana</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/17-0-to-platform-eng-day17/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/17-0-to-platform-eng-day17/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>grafana</category><category>observability</category><category>monitoring</category></item><item><title>Day 16: Getting Started with Prometheus – Monitoring Metrics</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/16-0-to-platform-eng-day16/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/16-0-to-platform-eng-day16/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>grafana</category><category>prometheus</category><category>monitoring</category><category>observability</category></item><item><title>Day 15: Automating Workflows with Kustomize and Skaffold</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/15-0-to-platform-eng-day15/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/15-0-to-platform-eng-day15/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 15 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into workflow automation for Kubernetes using Kustomize and Skaffold, two tools that simplify managing and deploying Kubernetes configurations</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category><category>gitops</category><category>kustomize</category><category>skaffold</category><category>devsecops</category></item><item><title>Day 14: Securing Kubernetes – Runtime Security and Policy Enforcement</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/14-0-to-platform-eng-day14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/14-0-to-platform-eng-day14/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 14 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll focus on securing Kubernetes clusters, covering runtime security and policy enforcement to ensure your applications and infrastructure are protected from vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category><category>gitops</category><category>argocd</category><category>devsecops</category><category>security</category><category>opa</category><category>falco</category></item><item><title>Day 13: Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/13-0-to-platform-eng-day13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/13-0-to-platform-eng-day13/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 13 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on monitoring and observability, key components for maintaining the health, performance, and reliability of your applications in Kubernetes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>IaC</category><category>gitops</category><category>argocd</category></item><item><title>Day 12: Advanced GitOps with Argo Rollouts</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/12-0-to-platform-eng-day12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/12-0-to-platform-eng-day12/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 12 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving deeper into GitOps by exploring Argo Rollouts, a powerful tool for managing progressive delivery strategies like canary and blue-green deployments.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category><category>gitops</category><category>argocd</category></item><item><title>Day 11: Introduction to GitOps with ArgoCD</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/11-0-to-platform-eng-day11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/11-0-to-platform-eng-day11/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 11 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into GitOps, a modern approach to managing Kubernetes applications declaratively, with ArgoCD as our tool of choice.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category></item><item><title>Day 10: Managing Kubernetes with Helm and Terraform</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/10-0-to-platform-eng-day10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/10-0-to-platform-eng-day10/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 10 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll explore how to combine Helm and Terraform, two powerful tools, to simplify the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category></item><item><title>Day 9: Advanced Terraform – Managing Kubernetes Resources</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/09-0-to-platform-eng-day9/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/09-0-to-platform-eng-day9/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 9 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving deeper into Terraform, exploring advanced features like modules, workspaces, and how to manage Kubernetes resources programmatically</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>terraform</category><category>IaC</category></item><item><title>Day 8: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/08-0-to-platform-eng-day8/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/08-0-to-platform-eng-day8/</guid><description>Welcome to Week 2 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 This week, we’re diving into Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines, two cornerstones of modern platform engineering. Today, we’ll focus on understanding what IaC is, why it matters, and how it helps manage infrastructure efficiently.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>IaC</category><category>terraform</category><category>CI/CD</category><category>AWS CDK</category></item><item><title>Day 7: Recap and Hands-On Challenges for Week 1</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/07-0-to-platform-eng-day7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/07-0-to-platform-eng-day7/</guid><description>Congratulations! 🎉 You’ve completed the first week of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge. This week, we’ve covered the foundations of Cloud Native and Kubernetes, setting the stage for everything to come. Today, we’ll recap the key concepts, reflect on your progress, and dive into some hands-on challenges to solidify your learning.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 6: ConfigMaps and Secrets – Managing Configurations in Kubernetes</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/06-0-to-platform-eng-day6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/06-0-to-platform-eng-day6/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 6 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! Today, we’re focusing on ConfigMaps and Secrets, two essential tools for managing application configurations and sensitive data in Kubernetes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 5: Kubernetes Services – Connecting Your Applications</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/05-0-to-platform-eng-day5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/05-0-to-platform-eng-day5/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 5 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! Yesterday, we explored Deployments and Scaling in Kubernetes, learning how to manage application lifecycles and scale them effectively. Today, we’ll dive into Kubernetes Services, which are essential for enabling communication between your applications and making them accessible to users.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 4: Deployments and Scaling in Kubernetes</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/04-0-to-platform-eng-day4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/04-0-to-platform-eng-day4/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 4 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! Now that we’ve covered the basics of Kubernetes, it’s time to explore one of its most powerful features: Deployments and Scaling. These tools let you manage your applications efficiently, ensuring they’re always running and able to handle demand.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 3: Getting Started with Kubernetes – The Foundation of Cloud Native</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/03-0-to-platform-eng-day3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/03-0-to-platform-eng-day3/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 3 of our Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! Today, we’re diving into Kubernetes, the backbone of modern cloud-native platforms. Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or looking to refine your skills, this post will give you a strong foundation to build on.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Day 2: Containers and Docker – The Building Blocks of Cloud Native</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/02-0-to-platform-eng-day2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/02-0-to-platform-eng-day2/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 2 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! Today, we’re diving into the fundamentals of containers, the role of Docker, and exploring other container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd. By the end of this post, you’ll know how to build, run, and manage containerized applications.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category></item><item><title>Day 1: Introduction to the CNCF and Its Landscape</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/01-0-to-platform-eng-day1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/01-0-to-platform-eng-day1/</guid><description>Welcome to Day 1 of Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days! Yesterday, we set the stage with what Platform Engineering is and why it’s such an exciting and impactful field. Today, we’re diving into one of the most important resources for Platform Engineers: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and its famous Landscape.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category></item><item><title>Day 0: Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days – Introduction</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/00-0-to-platform-eng-intro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/zero-to-hero/00-0-to-platform-eng-intro/</guid><description>Ready to level up? In just 30 days, you’ll go from zero to Platform Engineer hero. We’ll break it down step by step, covering everything from Kubernetes to building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Let’s make cloud native simple and fun!.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Platform Engineering</category><category>Devops</category><category>Cloud Native</category><category>SRE</category></item><item><title>Reflexion de Cumpleaños</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/reflexion-cumpleanos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/reflexion-cumpleanos/</guid><description>La vida se despliega como un vasto horizonte que nos reta a contemplar, agradecer y crecer día tras día. En esta reflexión, exploro la conexión con mis principios, mi familia y el incesante aprendizaje que nos ofrece la existencia cuando nos atrevemos a vivir con conciencia y gratitud.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Vida</category><category>Blog</category></item><item><title>Create a devpod K8S custom provider for EKS</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/devopd-custom-provider/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/devopd-custom-provider/</guid><description>Learn to deploy a devpod in AWS EKS with this guide covering custom pod manifest setup, devcontainer integration, and essential configurations.&quot;</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AWS</category><category>Devops</category><category>devopd</category><category>devcontainers</category></item><item><title>Get existing subnets by Tags in AWS CDK w/ Python</title><link>https://parraletz.space/blog/get-subnets-by-tags-in-aws-cdk-w-python/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://parraletz.space/blog/get-subnets-by-tags-in-aws-cdk-w-python/</guid><description>This is a &quot;Today I learned&quot; style post so it is intended to be very simple and short but with valuable information or information that can help solve the same problem I faced :D</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AWS</category><category>CDK</category><category>Python</category><category>Devops</category></item></channel></rss>