Multi-agent AI development system architecture diagram showing orchestrator managing specialized agents with MCP server providing centralized engineering standards

The 2,000-Line Prompt Problem: Building an AI Development Operating System

How a monolithic prompt file evolved into a production AI Development Operating System. Real architecture for multi-agent software development: MCP standards, orchestration patterns, and the phases that actually matter.

February 15, 2026 · Uttam Jaiswal
Digital sovereignty visualization showing global network connections with India highlighted in orange glow representing sovereign infrastructure, while international data flow lines illustrate geopolitical dependencies in digital infrastructure

Digital Sovereignty: When Geopolitics Disrupts Your Infrastructure

When geopolitics enters the infrastructure layer, convenience without control becomes fragile. Real incidents, technical alternatives, and why sovereignty requires deliberate architecture.

January 25, 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
Container ship deploying to multiple targets representing build once deploy many

When DevOps Dared Developers: Build Once, Deploy Many

How a frustrating rebuild cycle turned into a ‘build once, deploy many’ model by challenging the status quo on frontend configuration.

December 31, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
A visual metaphor showing infrastructure blocks forking into two paths - representing the Terraform to OpenTofu transition

You Broke My Heart, Terraform. Welcome OpenTofu

There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from failure, but from betrayal. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind. The kind where something you trusted, something you built around, something you advocated for, simply changes the rules. That is what the Terraform licensing shift felt like. Not a catastrophe. Not an emergency. Just a slow, uncomfortable realization that the ground had moved beneath our feet. The Relationship We Had Terraform was not just a tool. It was an idea. ...

December 28, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Traditional servers transforming into Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters

Servers to Containers: Migration Beyond Docker Run

Container migration looks deceptively simple. The real challenge isn’t running docker run - it’s doing it the right way for enterprise-grade results.

December 24, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Transformation from chaotic tangled deployments to organized GitOps with ArgoCD and Kubernetes

From Chaos to GitOps: Our Journey to ArgoCD

How a forced Kubernetes migration exposed our deployment chaos and led us to embrace GitOps with ArgoCD as our single source of truth.

December 20, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Breaking free from chained SaaS cloud to self-hosted GitLab with security shield

Breaking Free: SaaS GitLab to Self-Hosted Migration

A security audit exposed access control gaps in our SaaS GitLab. Here’s how we migrated to self-hosted GitLab, integrated with our corporate IDAM, and took control of our DevOps destiny.

December 19, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal