Ismail Kovvuru

DevOps Engineer | Automating infra & CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable software delivery.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-10-29

Ever wondered what your app is really doing under the hood?
strace lets you trace every system call : files opened, network connections, memory and more.
Perfect for debugging weird behavior in production.
for ex: strace -e trace=network curl google.com

Watch your terminal open → connect → send → receive → close — live in action

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-10-26

Quick Linux network check
ss -s
Shows all TCP, UDP connections listening ports and active sockets , a snapshot of your computer’s phone lines

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-10-22

Feeding fake data to AI can either empower AI through ethical synthetic data or undermine it through malicious data poisoning, making data integrity and security vital for trustworthy AI.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-10-19

In DevOps, the real differentiator at 2 AM isn’t just the tech stack—it’s the soft skills that hold the line. Explore actual incident stories, unexpected lessons, and the human side of DevOps in “DevOps Soft Skills That Save You at 2 AM”.
Read more: shorturl.at/NabPS

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-10-13

Server vs Serverless in 2025 — a detailed breakdown of performance, cost & scalability for DevOps engineers and cloud teams.
Read more: shorturl.at/DjWpv

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-29

In 2025, competitive edge isn’t bought off the shelf , it’s built bespoke.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-26

Deploy workloads across at least two AZs within a region or across multiple regions using services like Route 53 for failover.
Use AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess and optimize for reliability and security.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-09

Imagine this: it’s the IPL Final, and 50 million fans open your streaming app at the same time.
Each viewer expects zero buffering.
Advertisers demand 99.99% uptime.
Finance team screams “don’t overpay for infra!”. How do you design an auto-scaling system that handles this load without over-provisioning and burning money?
shorturl.at/cCJa6

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-09

Docker’s arrival reshaped the entire industry:

1.Startups could deploy like Google without huge infra teams.
2.Enterprises re-architected into microservices.
3.Cloud providers launched container services:

3.1 AWS ECS (2014)
3.2 Google Kubernetes Engine (2015)
3.3 Azure AKS (2017)

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-08

What happens when an AI agent misconfigures a VPC, leaks secrets, or optimizes in ways that violate compliance? Who’s accountable the engineer, the enterprise, or AWS?

AWS could pioneer an Agent Identity & Trust Layer:

1.Every AI agent has a verifiable identity.
2.Every action is auditable to that identity.
3.Guardrails enforce who/what an agent is allowed to be.

Without this, enterprises won’t fully trust agent-driven DevOps.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-08

The speed at which AWS is rolling out AI + DevOps innovations is remarkable.
But here’s the gap I see: governance frameworks for agentic AI inside enterprise DevOps pipelines. We have tools for automation, observability, compliance but when AI agents start making operational decisions, where are the guardrails?
Imagine AWS launching “AgentOps” a governance layer ensuring that autonomous AI actions in pipelines align with business rules, compliance, and security. That would be a game-changer.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-06

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) setup is a mandatory first step for launching services like RDS or EKS, as AWS enforces private network isolation for security, a practice backed by its 2023 compliance framework requiring 98% of data services to operate within VPCs.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-06

AWS VPCs are the foundation of cloud networking, but also the first big roadblock for DevOps teams. Misconfigured subnets, routes, and security groups can derail projects. This guide highlights common issues and how to build smarter VPCs.
👉 shorturl.at/AA7Xc

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-04

Zero-downtime deployments are achievable when you align strategy with tooling, probe tuning and real monitoring/rollback mechanisms. Kubernetes and AWS give you the primitives but your strategy is what makes or breaks your reliability.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-03

Containers are fast, portable and powerful… until they aren’t.
In AWS, Docker brings its own set of headaches from networking nightmares to security gaps that can turn a quick deployment into a long night on PagerDuty.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-02

High availability in EKS isn’t about running three replicas behind a Load Balancer. It’s about designing for invisible infrastructure failures: Spot loss, IP exhaustion, scaling bottlenecks, and blind spots in observability. These failures don’t crash your app — they silently degrade it.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-09-01

For an EC2 instance to write logs to CloudWatch and allow you to retrieve them, two conditions must be met:

1. IAM permissions for CloudWatch Logs — The instance role must have logs:CreateLogStream, logs:PutLogEvents, and logs:GetLogEvents.
2. Correct role-to-instance association — The IAM role with these permissions must be attached to the EC2 instance.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-08-30

kubectl set image deployment/<deployment-name> <container-name>=<repo>/<image>:latest

In production, avoid :latest. Always pin a specific version (e.g., nginx:1.27.2) to ensure predictable rollouts.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-08-29

In 2025, building resilient systems isn’t just about uptime — it’s about intelligent design, self-healing automation, cost-awareness, and compliance-ready governance.

Ismail Kovvuruismailkovvuru
2025-08-27

The biggest cost of cloud isn’t your monthly bill — it’s the financial and operational stranglehold that makes leaving almost impossible.

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