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Zakaria EL BAZI

aka. Z4ck404

Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and observability. Passionate about building scalable systems and sharing knowledge with the community.

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AWS Solutions Architect
Terraform Associate
Kubernetes CKA, KCNA, CGOA
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Articles by Zakaria EL BAZI

Kubernetes Resource Lifecycle Management with CronJob-Scale-Down-Operator Jul 27, 2025
Observability 2.0: Breaking the Three-Pillar Silos for Good Jul 6, 2025
AWS PrivateLink Native Cross‑Region Connectivity Apr 27, 2025
Terraform Infrastructure as Code: Essential Tools for Clean, Maintainable Production Environments Mar 6, 2025
Helm Charts in Production: Essential Plugins and Features for Reliable Kubernetes Deployments Jan 6, 2025
Secure Secrets Management in Terraform — Part2: AWS Secret Manager Dec 25, 2024
Secure Secrets Management in Terraform Part1: Leveraging AWS KMS Nov 17, 2024
Thanos Deep Dive: Addressing Prometheus Limitations at Scale Oct 28, 2024
AWS Client VPN: A Practical Guide to Secure Infrastructure Access Oct 28, 2024
EKS Pod Identity or IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) ? Sep 15, 2024
Exposing Ports in Kubernetes: What You Should to Know Aug 30, 2024
AWS EKS Required Add-Ons: A Comprehensive Guide Aug 11, 2024
AWS VPC Endpoints: Balancing Security, Performance, and Cost Aug 10, 2024
AWS IAM Roles For Kubernetes Service Accounts (IRSA) Jul 27, 2024
Getting Started With OpenTofu (v1.7.0) on AWS — State Encryption. May 4, 2024
Low-Cost, Unlimited Metrics Storage with Thanos: Monitor All Your K8s Clusters Anywhere and More. May 3, 2024
Chat With Your AWS Resources Using ChatGPT Apr 7, 2024
Do Pods Really Get Evicted Due to CPU Pressure? Mar 21, 2024
Exploring Steampipe for Terraform Drift Detection Feb 29, 2024
Welcome to AWS Morocco’s first newsletter! Feb 29, 2024
How Does AWS PrivateLink Work ? Feb 29, 2024
AWS Inter-Region PrivateLink using Terraform Feb 29, 2024
CSI Drivers (EBS, EFS, S3) on EKS And How To Use Them Feb 29, 2024
Lessons Learned From Mounting Secrets to Pods on Kubernetes Feb 29, 2024
Getting Started With Terraform on AWS — State backend & State Locking Feb 29, 2024
Enhancing Efficiency with KMS Cache in Amazon S3 Buckets Feb 29, 2024
Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Alertmanager: Setting Up Alerts with Slack Integration Feb 29, 2024
All you need to know about Terraform provisioners and why you should avoid them. Feb 29, 2024
How hackers can find your exposed Elasticsearch clusters using Shodan! Jun 25, 2020
Machine learning on Elastic Search using Apache Spark and ES-Hadoop — Part 2 May 31, 2020
Machine learning on Elastic Search using Apache Spark and ES-Hadoop — Part 1 Mar 11, 2020