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§ 02ops tips

Daily Ops Tips

01DevOps

Always set resource limits on Kubernetes pods. Unbounded containers eat noisy-neighbour budget and trigger node-pressure evictions on critical workloads.

02AI

When evaluating an LLM prompt, log temperature, top_p, model version, and seed. Without those, your "regression" might just be sampling drift.

03Crypto

Never reuse a hot wallet's private key in a new chain - derivation paths differ and signing behaviour can leak metadata across chains.

04Security

GitHub OIDC for CI is almost always safer than long-lived deploy keys. The token is short-lived, scoped, and rotates per-job.

05Regulation

APRA CPS 230 requires a critical operations register and tested resilience. 'Tested' means actually running the scenarios - paper tests don't count.

06Sim Racing

Don't tune setup before logging at least 20 clean laps. Driver inconsistency masks setup signal until your delta-T stabilises.

§ 03useful one-liners

Command Notebook

01Kubernetes
$ kubectl get events --sort-by=.lastTimestamp

See recent cluster events oldest→newest

02Docker
$ docker system df -v

Disk usage broken down by image, container, volume, build cache

03Terraform
$ terraform state list | wc -l

Count of resources in current state - quick drift sanity check

04Git
$ git log --since="1 week" --pretty=format:"%h %s" --no-merges

What landed this week, no merge noise

05AWS
$ aws sts get-caller-identity

Confirm which AWS principal you are right now

06Linux
$ systemd-analyze blame | head -20

20 slowest units at boot - quick perf forensics

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Hardening Windows 11: Essential Security Configuration Guide

A working sysadmin's notes on hardening Windows 11 with GPOs, ASR rules, and PowerShell - what's baseline, what's paranoid, and what breaks production.

§ 08operator humour

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