Memorizing Linux commands is useless if you don't know how they fit into the bigger picture of a system's lifecycle. When a production server is melting down and your pager is screaming, you don't have time to read man pages. You need muscle memory.

Originally published at aimanhaziq.my Introduction: The Misconception of the "Toolbox" For a long time, I viewed DevOps through the lens of a Data Engineer: it was about Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and automating the "boring stuff." I thought that if you had a robust CI/CD

Imagine this: It’s 3:00 AM. Your phone buzzes. The production database is down. The disk failed. If you have a replication setup, you simply promote your standby server and go back to sleep. If you don't... well, you're in for a very long night

We often need robust orchestration without the massive overhead of a full-blown Kubernetes cluster, especially when working with edge devices or resource-constrained laptops. In this guide, I’ll walk you through setting up MicroK8s, a lightweight, production-grade Kubernetes distribution. We will start with a basic deployment on WSL/Linux, upgrade