Resources
Tools, docs, and communities I use in platform and Kubernetes work.
Kubernetes & cloud-native
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Kubernetes documentation
Core reference for workloads, networking, and cluster operations.
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CNCF
Home of the cloud-native ecosystem — projects, landscape, and community.
CI/CD & GitOps
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GitHub Actions
CI/CD for this portfolio and project pipelines.
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Flux
GitOps toolkit used in my banking platform project.
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Argo CD
Declarative GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes.
Packaging & configuration
Networking
Internal developer platform
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Backstage
Open source IDP — software catalog, scaffolding, and developer portal for platform teams.
Observability
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OpenTelemetry
Vendor-neutral traces, metrics, and logs — used in platform demos.
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Prometheus
Metrics collection and alerting for Kubernetes workloads.
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Grafana
Dashboards and visualization on top of Prometheus and other data sources.
Policy & security
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Kyverno
Kubernetes-native policy management with validate, mutate, and generate rules.
Secrets & identity
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External Secrets Operator
Sync secrets from external stores into Kubernetes — used in my banking platform project.
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HashiCorp Vault
Secrets management and encryption; common backend for ESO and platform workflows.
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Keycloak
Open source IAM — OIDC and SSO; exploring locally in my Kind lab (not yet in a public repo).
Data
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CloudNativePG
Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL — HA, backups, and lifecycle management for stateful workloads.
Infrastructure as code
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Terraform
Infrastructure provisioning — used for AWS and cluster foundations.
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Crossplane
Kubernetes control plane for cloud resources — focus of my Crossplane study.