· Asep Alazhari · DevOps
We Found a Kubernetes Outage That Never Alerted
A noisy DaemonSet log led us to control plane certificates that had been expired for 16 days with zero alerts. Here is the full story and the fix.
Tag: DevOps
· Asep Alazhari · DevOpsFixing Next.js Docker Build OOM Kills in CI
A Next.js build that passes locally can get OOM killed in CI. Fix Docker memory limits, build worker CPU count, and Node engine checks with this guide.
· Asep Alazhari · DevOpsDirect Commits to master Will Haunt You on Deploy Day
A Swagger refactor committed straight to master caused a 3-way merge conflict and a silent GitLab API failure on deploy day. Learn the rule that prevents it.
· Asep Alazhari · DevOpsDocker vs PM2 for Next.js on VPS: The 2026 Deployment Guide
PM2 is simple. Docker is powerful. On a VPS with 7 GB idle RAM, the real choice is about pipelines, portability, and scale. Find out which one fits your stack.
· Asep Alazhari · DevOpsMySQL Gone Away: HAProxy, Galera, and Ghost Processes
At 2 AM, 80% of database connections were failing after migrating to HAProxy. The root cause was 83-day-old ghost processes nobody knew were still running.
· Asep Alazhari · DevOpsStop Copying .env Manually: Sync Dev Secrets via GitLab
Tired of manually copying .env files across devices? I built a free Python script that syncs dev secrets via GitLab CI/CD variables in one command.