ENGINEERING NOTES

Practical engineering notes.

Short technical references drawn from production work. Each note links to its own page.

• ENGINEERING NOTE3 min read

  Reducing Keycloak configuration drift with repeatable automation

  A practical note on driving Keycloak realm, client, and identity-provider configuration from code so the same desired state can be re-applied across environments.

  • · Keycloak
  • · Identity
  • · Automation

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• ENGINEERING NOTE2 min read

  A practical Kafka and Strimzi upgrade validation checklist

  A checklist-shaped note for Kafka and Strimzi upgrade rehearsals, organised so failures get attributed to the right layer rather than to 'the upgrade'.

  • · Kafka
  • · Strimzi
  • · Upgrades

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• ENGINEERING NOTE3 min read

  Investigating Kubernetes deployment failures before blaming CI

  A decision flow for narrowing down a failed Kubernetes deployment using cluster-level evidence first, and turning to CI orchestration once the cluster-side picture is clear.

  • · Kubernetes
  • · Debugging
  • · CI/CD

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