Cloud Migration
Cloud Migration Planning: Assessment to Cutover
Migrations fail on forgotten cron jobs and unmapped dependencies, not on instance sizing. This guide covers discovery tooling, dependency mapping,…
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Running PostgreSQL on a Cloud Server
Self-hosting PostgreSQL is reasonable, and it is a real responsibility. This guide follows the sequence a careful operator uses on…
Storage & Data
Redis Caching in the Cloud: Managed vs Self-Hosted
A cache stops work happening twice, and most Redis problems start when that line blurs. This guide covers the three…
Storage & Data
Moving Data Between Cloud Providers
Copying data between providers is mostly a planning problem. This guide covers the four questions to answer first, taking a…
DevOps & Automation
CI/CD Pipelines That Deploy to Cloud Servers
A green build is not a deployment. This guide covers the machinery between the two: promoting one immutable artifact, giving…
Storage & Data
Data Residency and Sovereignty: Choosing Where Data Lives
Residency is where the bytes sit, localisation is a legal border, and sovereignty is about whose courts can compel access.…
DevOps & Automation
cloud-init for Server Provisioning
cloud-init turns a generic disk image into your server before you ever log in. This guide covers the cloud-config format,…
Storage & Data
Database Backups and Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-in-time recovery shrinks acceptable data loss to seconds by separating a full base copy from a continuous log of changes.…
DevOps & Automation
Ansible for Cloud Server Configuration
Ansible keeps the inside of your cloud servers matching a description you can review. This starter guide covers the agentless…
Storage & Data
Shared File Storage and NFS in the Cloud
Shared file storage answers one requirement: several machines reading and writing the same files through ordinary filesystem calls. This guide…
DevOps & Automation
Monitoring Cloud Servers: Metrics, Logs and Alerts
Useful monitoring answers questions rather than filling a wall with graphs. This guide covers the three kinds of signal, what…
DevOps & Automation
Autoscaling Explained: Horizontal, Vertical and Scheduled
Autoscaling works only on workloads designed to be replaced at any moment. This guide separates horizontal, vertical and scheduled scaling,…