Frigga Blogs

Somebody on your team is going to add a label this month. It will be a reasonable label. It will make a dashboard more useful, it will answer a question somebody asked in a retro, and it will pass review without comment. Three weeks later your Prome…

Kubernetes' built-in Deployment has exactly one automated deployment strategy, the rolling update, and it is far less careful than most teams assume. It replaces old pods with new ones a few at a time, but the moment a new pod passes its…

The question of whether a startup needs SRE comes up a lot in engineering conversations, usually framed as a choice between two competing approaches. It is not a choice. DevOps and SRE are not alternatives. DevOps is a cultural and operational philoso…

Running infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure with GitHub Actions as the deployment layer means tooling decisions compound fast. Every paid tool you add is a per-seat or per-host cost that scales with the team. The five tools in this post cover ob…

When you manage infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure through GitHub Actions, one of the first things you notice is how differently code changes and infrastructure changes are treated. Code gets a pull request, a review, a commit history, and a ro…