Journal
Build logs & field notes
Honest write-ups of what I built, what broke, and what I learned, mostly about Kubernetes, GitOps and the messy reality of shipping infrastructure.
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My Todo App Journey: An Automated Cloud-Native Platform
Taking a simple Todo app from kubectl apply on my laptop to a production-grade GitOps platform on GKE: Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo Rollouts canaries with metric-driven rollback, and Prometheus/Grafana.
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Kubernetes Journey: From kubectl to GitOps
How the 'Log-Pong' app took me from manual kubectl apply to a fully automated ArgoCD GitOps pipeline: service discovery, readiness probes, and progressive canary releases.
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The Story of This Very Website
How mapuekyle.com began as a beginner DevOps project: a static site provisioned on a DigitalOcean droplet with Terraform, Ansible, Docker and GitHub Actions.