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Cloud Journal

Practical, provider-accurate writing on cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, security fundamentals and the decisions behind choosing a cloud.

A continuous delivery pipeline moving a build artifact from a repository onto cloud servers
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…

6 min read
A fleet of cloud instances growing and shrinking behind a load balancer as demand changes
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,…

6 min read
Traffic switching between two identical production environments during a blue-green release
DevOps & Automation

Blue-Green Deployments on Cloud Infrastructure

Blue-green deployment separates installing a release from exposing it. This guide covers the four places the traffic switch can live,…

6 min read
A cluster agent pulling declared state from a configuration repository and reconciling drift
DevOps & Automation

GitOps Basics for Cloud Teams

GitOps is not simply keeping YAML in version control. This guide covers the four defining properties, why configuration lives in…

6 min read