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9 articlesKubernetes Observability: A Production Grafana LGTM Stack with Alloy
How we run production Kubernetes observability on a self-hosted Grafana LGTM stack — Alloy, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo, wired for correlated metrics, logs, and traces across clusters.
gitswitch: Per-Directory Git Identity Binding with a Pre-Commit Guard
Stop committing as the wrong person. gitswitch is an open-source CLI from Target-Ops that binds a git identity (email, SSH key, gh CLI, signing) to a directory and refuses commits where the identity is wrong.
IPv6 Kubernetes: Complete Dual-Stack Implementation Guide for EKS and GKE
IPv6 Kubernetes implementation for EKS and GKE — Terraform patterns, dual-stack tradeoffs, NAT gateway cost reduction, and a phased migration playbook. The gotchas you'll hit before you reach them.
K9s Kubernetes CLI: Advanced Productivity Techniques for Platform Engineers
Advanced K9s techniques from Target-Ops engineers — custom views, plugins, aliases, and triage workflows that make Kubernetes operations meaningfully faster. Copy-paste ready config.
Helm Chart Best Practices: Production-Grade Kubernetes Packaging
Production-grade Helm chart best practices from Target-Ops engineers — structure, versioning, security, hooks, schema validation, and the shared-library pattern that eliminates chart sprawl.
AnyClown: One-Click Git Repository Cloning to VS Code
Stop typing git clone. AnyClown is a free Chrome extension from Target-Ops that turns any GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket URL into a one-click clone-and-open in VS Code — saving DevOps engineers hours per week.
Cloud Provider Selection: Strategic Framework for DevOps Teams
The decision framework Target-Ops uses to reason about AWS vs GCP vs Azure — five questions that matter, honest per-vendor assessment, a worked hybrid-cloud example, and when multi-cloud actually makes sense.
VS Code DevOps Extension Pack: The Ultimate Toolkit for DevOps Engineers
Curated by Target-Ops engineers — the VS Code DevOps Ultra Pack bundles Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, CI/CD, and productivity extensions into a single install. Standardize your team's editor in one command.
Kubernetes Ingress Optimization: Production-Grade ingress-nginx Performance Tuning
Production-grade ingress-nginx optimization — worker processes, HTTP/2, connection pooling, caching, rate limiting, and the pitfalls that actually bite you at scale. Practical patterns with the math to back them up.
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