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Rollbacks in ArgoCD

1st July 2025 / Vuyisile

Deployments don’t always go according to plan, and changes can break the application. In this post, I discuss how to perform a rollback using ArgoCD.

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Terraform Remote Backend Using Azure Blob Storage

Setting Up a Remote Backend for Terraform Using Azure Storage

26th June 2025 / Vuyisile

Terraform Remote State Using Azure Storage Recently, I needed to set up a shared Terraform workflow where state could be

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GitOps with ArgoCD

13th June 2025 / Vuyisile

I’m learning a set of new tools to make my skills more well-rounded. These include Azure, Terraform and ArgoCD. ArgoCD

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An intro to Helm

12th June 2025 / Vuyisile

I’m currently learning Helm to improve how I deploy and manage Kubernetes applications. This post is a quick summary of

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From HDD to SSD: How I fixed an I/O Bottleneck in a Kubernetes Node

30th May 2025 / Vuyisile

My media server kept freezing and crashing Kubernetes pods. After some digging, I realised the bottleneck was the old spinning HDD. I cloned the system to an SSD, swapped the drives, and the node is now stable and fast. In this post, I talk about how I did it with minimal downtime.

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