Platform Engineering, DevOps, S.R.E., Tools
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Cloud-Native Engineering Blog

Engineering blog on innovative solutions and technical excellence by engineers and architects.

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KEYCLOAK
TERRAFORM
Automate KeyCloak OIDC Authentication / Authorization Realms, Clients and App configuration with Terraform.

How to manage Keycloak at scale using Terraform : from realms and SMTP configuration to OIDC clients and secrets, this blog explores GitOps-driven approaches for secure, automated identity infrastructure across multi-service and multi-environment deployments.
Guru Raghupathy : Thu, 16 Apr 2026
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JENKINS
GITOPS
JOBS
Automate CI / CD On-boarding process ( Job orchestration ) in Jenkins in an easy to scale and GitOps friendly way.

Manually creating Jenkins jobs is an error-prone, non-scalable task. By using simple plugins and Groovy code stored in Git, you can achieve a scalable project onboarding process that is quick, scalable, and DR-friendly, all tracked in your favorite Git repository.
Guru Raghupathy : Tue, 20 Jan 2026
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TECH
RADAR
INNOVATION
How Tech Radar helps organizations make informed decisions about technology adoption.

A Tech Radar is a visual and strategic tool that helps organizations make informed decisions about technology adoption. It provides a systematic way to assess, track, and communicate the status of technologies, tools, platforms, languages, and frameworks within your organization.
Guru Raghupathy : Fri, 1 Aug 2025
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PEOPLE
MANAGEMENT
The Cost of Manager Favoritism: How Workplace Bias Undermines Team Success.

Favoritism in the workplace is like a slow poison. It may not kill productivity immediately, but it gradually erodes the foundation of trust, fairness, and collaboration that high-performing teams depend on.
Guru Raghupathy : Fri, 4 Jul 2025
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JAVA
SPRING
Springing Forward: A Deep Dive into Spring Boot 3.5's Latest Features.

Spring Boot 3.5 (May 22, 2025) brings a host of exciting new features and improvements that promise to enhance developer productivity, application performance, and overall system observability.
Guru Raghupathy : Thu, 3 Jul 2025
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FEATURE-FLAGS
DEVOPS
CONFIGURATION
Feature Flags For Fearless Software Delivery Without Rollback.

Feature Flags (Feature Toggles) can transform your software delivery! This article shows you how to ship features faster, test in production, and fix issues instantly – all without redeploying your app / service whilst being managed centrally.
Guru Raghupathy : Tue, 3 Jun 2025
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K8S
KUSTOMIZE
DEVOPS
TERRAFORM
Effective GKE Management With Terraform & Kustomize (with code).

Managing GKE (k8s) clusters and applications inside them has become a never ending battle. Managing apps and configuration accurately has become cumbersome. This has become more common given the rise of micro-services and event-driven services.
Guru Raghupathy : Wed, 15 Jan 2025
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JAVA
DOCKER
MAVEN
DEVOPS
Accelarate Java application build & containerization with plugins.

Java service Development involving test, SAST (Sonar), Containerisation, Versioning can become complicated. Creating multiple steps with Environment variables, CI specific plugins and DockerFile is time wasted. With maven plug-ins you can automate it saving lot of effort.
Guru Raghupathy : Sat, 4 Jan 2025
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FINOPS
NETWORKING
CLOUD
Private / Internal Network For Speed, Cost and Security.

In today's interconnected businessess, private and internal networks play a vital role in optimizing organizational performance. These dedicated networks offer significant advantages in three critical areas: speed, cost-effectiveness, and security.
Guru Raghupathy : Wed, 1 Jan 2025
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DORA
JENKINS
GCP
K8S
Optimized DR Mechanism For Jenkins Using GCS Bucket in GKE.

Setting up a simple disaster recovery (DR) mechanism for Jenkins running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Google Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets and FUSE persistent volumes.
Guru Raghupathy : Wed, 1 Jan 2025
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SECURITY
IDENTITY
AUTH
JENKINS
Using Workload Identity For Password-less Security.

Workload Identity represents a modern, security-focused approach to managing authentication between services and workloads. This powerful feature eliminates the need for managing static credentials, enhancing your cloud security posture.
Guru Raghupathy : Wed, 1 Jan 2025
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FINOPS
CLOUD
GCP
TERRAFORM
Start Small, Expand Later for optimization and control.

With cloud providing unlimited resources, we may end up with a huge bill if not careful. A good approach is to start very small and expand slowly based on metrics rather than upfront provisioning. You can use tools like terraform, GKEs, grafana for this purpose.
Guru Raghupathy : Wed, 1 Jan 2025