Manufacturing SMB server room showing failed backup infrastructure timeline and ₹3 crore data recovery disaster in Raipur India

Manufacturing Backup Disaster: ₹3 Crore Lost, OSS Solution

A real wake-up call for every SMB: How Shakthi Auto Components in Raipur lost 5 years of production data in one power surge, the ₹3 crore impact, and the complete open source backup solution DevOps Den built for ₹1.5 lakhs/year

January 23, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal
ArgoCD backup and disaster recovery architecture diagram showing etcd backup, GitOps state persistence, and high availability setup

ArgoCD Backup and Disaster Recovery: Never Lose GitOps State

From understanding where ArgoCD stores its configuration to implementing automated backups and high availability—a practitioner’s guide to making your GitOps control plane bulletproof

January 20, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal
GitLab migration journey from SaaS cloud to secure self-hosted infrastructure with OIDC/SAML authentication

GitLab Migration Guide: SaaS to Self-Hosted in 5 Weeks

How Team Mavericks at DevOps Den migrated 100+ GitLab projects behind the corporate firewall—complete with the challenges faced, lessons learned, and production-ready automation scripts that got them across the finish line

January 17, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal
ArgoCD orchestrating multi-cluster GitOps deployments across E2E, DigitalOcean, and AWS

ArgoCD Multi-Cluster GitOps: From Install to Production

A practitioner’s guide to production-grade GitOps, automation, and Kubernetes migrations—from first install to managing 50+ applications across E2E, DigitalOcean, and AWS EKS clusters

January 15, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal
HashiCorp Vault securing Kubernetes secrets with multi-cluster architecture

Vault Kubernetes Secrets: HA Raft Multi-Cluster Journey

A real-world journey with HashiCorp Vault, HA Raft, and multi-cluster secret injection, built from production lessons, not lab demos.

January 14, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal