Articles & tutorials

17 article(s)

• Production Readiness on AWS: Secrets, Blue/Green and Rollback

  Secrets management, blue/green releases with automatic rollback, resilience, backups, cost control and a go-live checklist.

  Manish Mishra · Sep 24, 2026
• Observability on AWS: CloudWatch, Alarms, Prometheus and Grafana

  Structured logs, Logs Insights, the four golden signals, alarms that matter, tracing with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus on EKS.

  Manish Mishra · Sep 19, 2026
• Kubernetes on Amazon EKS: Deploying and Comparing with ECS

  Create an EKS cluster with Terraform, deploy with probes and resource requests, package with Helm and choose between ECS and EKS.

  Manish Mishra · Sep 14, 2026
• Running Containers on Amazon ECS with Fargate

  Production-ready images, task definitions, the two IAM roles, ALB integration, safe rolling deployments and autoscaling on ECS.

  Manish Mishra · Sep 9, 2026
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions to Amazon ECR Using OIDC

  A complete GitHub Actions pipeline that tests, builds and pushes container images to ECR with no stored AWS credentials.

  Manish Mishra · Sep 4, 2026
• Git Workflows for CI/CD: Branching, Reviews and Versioning

  Trunk-based development, protected branches, conventional commits, SHA-tagged images and promoting one artifact through environments.

  Manish Mishra · Aug 30, 2026
• Infrastructure as Code on AWS with Terraform

  Terraform state, remote backends, the VPC module, per-environment variables and the plan-review-apply workflow teams use.

  Manish Mishra · Aug 25, 2026
• AWS VPC Networking for Deployments: Subnets, Routes and Security Groups

  Design a production-style VPC with public and private subnets, NAT, chained security groups and a method for debugging connectivity.

  Manish Mishra · Aug 20, 2026
• IAM for DevOps on AWS: Roles, Policies and Keyless CI with OIDC

  How IAM evaluates requests, why roles replace access keys, least-privilege policies and letting GitHub Actions deploy without stored secrets.

  Manish Mishra · Aug 15, 2026
• AWS DevOps Roadmap: Roles, Pipeline and the Services Map

  What an AWS DevOps engineer actually does, the shortlist of services that matter, safe account setup and the pipeline this series builds.

  Manish Mishra · Aug 10, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 10: Observability with OpenTelemetry

  Close the roadmap with OpenTelemetry: traces, metrics, and logs from a running API, custom spans and counters for business operations, cardinality rules, and sampling strategy.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 24, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 8: CI/CD with GitHub Actions

  Automate build, smoke test, image, and deployment with GitHub Actions: SHA-tagged images, OIDC federation to Azure, environments with approvals, and pipeline hygiene.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 10, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 7: Azure Deployment

  Ship the container to Azure: choosing between App Service, Container Apps and AKS, pushing to a registry, secrets and managed identity, and capturing it all as Bicep.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 3, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 6: Docker

  Package the API as a container: multi-stage Dockerfile, layer-cache-friendly restore, non-root user, and the two real build failures you will hit — verified with a running container.

  @llaxmikant · Jun 26, 2026
• Create an Azure VM using C# and Azure.ResourceManager

  Provision a complete Azure Linux VM from C# with the modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK — DefaultAzureCredential auth, VNet, public IP, NIC, SSH-key login, and a migration map from the deprecated Fluent

  @llaxmikant · May 15, 2026
• Azure Resource Manager Templates Overview — with Bicep

  How Azure Resource Manager works and why templates beat scripts — with Bicep as the modern authoring language: parameters, resources, outputs, what-if previews, and deployment commands.

  @llaxmikant · Apr 11, 2026
• How to Get Azure Tenant ID, Client ID and Client Secret (Portal and CLI)

  Find your Azure tenant ID, subscription ID, client ID and client secret in the portal or with az cli, then use them with DefaultAzureCredential.

  @llaxmikant · Mar 9, 2026