About

I’m Divyam Azad, a DevOps engineer in Pune, India. Six years in, my days are Kubernetes clusters and bare-metal fleets, infrastructure as code, GitOps pipelines, zero-trust networking and observability, and increasingly the quiet discipline of keeping small systems honest. I started out in ethical hacking, which still shapes how I build things: assume an adversary, keep the surface small, and make the evidence public.

What this blog is

Notes from running real infrastructure, mostly the small server behind this site. It hosts the portfolio, a status page, a Telegram bot a household actually uses, CrowdSec in front of the edge, and a self-hosted NetBird control plane, all declared in one git repository and converged by a five-minute pull loop. When something breaks or surprises me, it becomes a post: what happened, why, and the smallest fix that actually works.

Expect: GitOps on one box, Docker and Caddy edge cases, security you can verify from the outside, Kubernetes and cluster lifecycle, and the occasional write-up of an outage I caused myself. Don’t expect: vendor pitches, listicles, or “ultimate guides”.

Follow along

Everything here is written by me, by hand. If a post helped you, or you found a mistake, the best way to reach me is LinkedIn.