The CloudMaven blogs

Cloud, DevOps & AI, in practice.

Practical notes, guides and getting-started walkthroughs, written by the engineers who do the work.

Azure Cloud: Deploying (and Debugging) Your First Static Website

Before you provision anything complicated, you need to understand how Azure organizes resources, and how to survive the moment your first deployment doesn't work the way you expected. Here are the basics, plus a real walkthrough of deploying a static site and fixing it when it breaks.

Deepak VermaAugust 2, 20268 min readRead article

Cloud 8 min read

Azure Cloud: Deploying (and Debugging) Your First Static Website

Aug 2, 2026 Read article

Kubernetes 6 min read

Kubernetes in Production: From Containers to Scalable Applications

Docker gets your app running. Production asks harder questions, what happens when a server dies at 2am, or traffic doubles overnight? That's the space Kubernetes was built for.

Jul 30, 2026 Read article

Infrastructure as Code 13 min read

Terraform, Demystified: What It Is, How It Really Works, and Why It Changed Infrastructure Forever

Infrastructure as code from the ground up: what Terraform does, how the plan/apply workflow really works, every file type explained, remote state on Azure, and the OpenTofu split.

Jul 29, 2026 Read article

Kubernetes 5 min read

Helm: From Deploying Charts to Designing Production-Grade Kubernetes Applications

Your first Helm command installs someone else's chart in one line. It feels like magic, until you need to change something. That's when Helm stops being a tool and starts being engineering.

Jul 28, 2026 Read article

AI 10 min read

AI for DevOps: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Software Delivery

From predictive monitoring to auto-remediation, AI is turning DevOps from reactive firefighting into proactive, intelligent operations. Here's how it works, and where it's headed.

Jul 27, 2026 Read article

Cloud 6 min read

AWS in Production: Moving Beyond Knowing Services to Building Real Solutions

Knowing what EC2, S3 or RDS do is the easy part. Knowing when, why, and how to wire them together into something that survives real traffic is where cloud engineering actually begins.

Jul 27, 2026 Read article

Automation 12 min read

Getting Started with Ansible

A practical introduction to Ansible, its agentless architecture, core components, and a hands-on example that installs and configures Nginx across multiple servers with a single playbook.

Jul 20, 2026 Read article

Fundamentals 6 min read

Git & GitHub: Surviving Your First Merge Conflict

Before you write a single line of production code, there's one skill you'll use every day: Git. Here are the fundamentals, plus a walkthrough of the merge conflict that trips up almost every new engineer.

Jul 13, 2026 Read article

AI 7 min read

Getting Started with MCP

What the Model Context Protocol actually is, how hosts and servers fit together, and a simple way to try it without getting lost in jargon.

Jul 6, 2026 Read article

Containers 8 min read

Getting Started with Docker

How Docker helps developers build, ship, and run applications consistently across different environments, from a laptop to production, and why it ends the era of 'it works on my machine'.

Jun 29, 2026 Read article