📋 JayJay's DevOps Diaries ..

Chronicling my journey through Cloud Native Infrastructure.. one step and tool at a time...

May 2, 2026 - 6 minute read - Kubernetes DevOps Networking

☸️ For the HELM of it

In a cheeky 🥴 bid to demonstrate a simple app deployment 🧐 utilizing Helm Charts, 🤔 I would be plagiarising a friends article on Helm Charts that actaully got me started, provided the ground work and basic understanding on them.. I really loved his take on it.

May 2, 2026 - 1 minute read - Kubernetes DevOps Networking

Kubernetes Basics: Exposing a Pod with Service and Ingress – Follow-up Tutorial

Learn how to expose an Nginx Pod inside Kubernetes using Services and Ingress, so it becomes accessible via a friendly domain name.

May 2, 2026 - 4 minute read - Kubernetes DevOps Networking

The concept of Deployment Strategies.

In modern software engineering, a deployment strategy is the systematic approach used to release new application code to a production environment. These strategies serve as the bridge between development and end-user access, determining how updates are introduced while maintaining system stability.

May 2, 2026 - 2 minute read - Kubernetes DevOps Networking

The Magic of Service Mesh

A Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that handles service-to-service communication within a microservices architecture. Instead of your application code managing complex tasks like traffic routing, security, or observability, a service mesh offloads these responsibilities to a fleet of lightweight network proxies (often called 'sidecars') deployed alongside each service instance.

May 2, 2026 - 11 minute read - Kubernetes DevOps Networking

WebApps - A cool Docker Image, for testing, debugging, training, and demonstration purposes.

Master the process of creating, versioning, and deploying customized Nginx Docker images. You will learn how to build tailored containers, push them to an artifact registry like DockerHub, and seamlessly pull them for use in Docker, Kubernetes, or any Infrastructure as Code environment. This configuration-driven approach allows for rapid, repeatable deployments—simply update the image version tag in your manifests to reuse the same infrastructure logic across different environments.