ArcanaOps

A knowledge base for DevOps, platform engineering and cloud with real projects, practical guides and deep dives into the tools that ship software.

Arcana are the hidden arts. The knowledge that isn't obvious until you've been through the fire. ArcanaOps is a knowledge hub for the systems and practices that build, break and rebuild modern software.

What you'll find here

Concepts, guides and hands-on projects across the core disciplines of DevOps, cloud and platform engineering.

Kubernetes

Container orchestration, Helm charts, k3s clusters and production-grade workload management.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform modules, remote state and provisioning repeatable cloud environments.

CI/CD Pipelines

GitHub Actions workflows, automated testing and zero-downtime deployment strategies.

Containers

Docker fundamentals, multi-stage builds, registries and container security practices.

Observability

Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, alerting and making systems legible.

And much more

Networking, security, cloud cost, GitOps, databases and everything in between.

Projects

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Kubernetes Demo App (k3s)

Multi-service app deployed on a local k3s cluster with Helm charts and ingress routing.

KubernetesHelmk3sYAMLGrafanaPrometheus

CI/CD Pipeline

End-to-end automation pipeline with GitHub Actions, including test, build and deploy stages.

GitHub ActionsYAMLDocker
Coming soon

Dockerized Test Framework

Containerized Playwright + TypeScript setup for portable, reproducible test runs.

DockerTypeScriptPlaywright
Coming soon

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Provisioning cloud resources on AWS using Terraform modules and remote state.

TerraformAWSIaC
Coming soon

Observability Stack

Self-hosted Prometheus + Grafana setup with alerting for a demo application.

PrometheusGrafanaAlertmanager
Coming soon

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