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PUBLISHED
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Written from production, not slideware.

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PLATFORM OPS

Field notes from production, not slideware.

A free, open technical newsletter on Kubernetes, SRE and platform engineering. No paywall, no sign-in, no tracking — a tree of static pages generated from a handful of data files, with the source public.

It exists because the explanation I wanted usually did not. Writing the thing you had to work out yourself is the most reliable way to find out whether you actually understood it.

KubernetesOpenShift ObservabilityService Mesh CI/CDLinux
21Issues published
93Pages
154Topics covered
362Commands documented
What is in it

THE FULL SPREAD

Deep dives

Architecture to incident

Kubernetes workloads, config and access, scheduling, autoscaling and cluster operations. OpenShift architecture, networking, storage and operations. Service mesh fundamentals and operations.

Reference

362 commands

Linux, Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift command references, grouped by the task you are actually doing rather than alphabetically.

Foundations

Underneath it all

Computer fundamentals, operating systems, shell and bash, Python, and Git — the layer that explains why the layer above behaves as it does.

Practice

A terminal in the page

A Unix shell simulated over an in-memory filesystem, with exercises that check the state of the system rather than the string you typed.

ELSEWHERE

HAVE A PROBLEM IN THIS LAYER?

Specifics get a better answer than introductions — say what is actually happening and I will tell you what I would look at first.