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.

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect
Terraform Associate
Kubernetes CKA, CKAD, KCNA, CGOA
Azure Certifications

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Articles 35

A Practical Guide to NUMA Affinity in Kubernetes Feb 22, 2026

kubernetesnumatopology-managercpu-managermemory-managerhpccloud-computing

A Practical Guide to CPU Pinning in Kubernetes Feb 16, 2026

kubernetescpuhpccloud-computingcpu-pinningTerraformKubernetesAWSDocker

Deploying an OpenTelemetry-Native LGTM Stack on Kubernetes Oct 27, 2025

observabilitykuberneteslgtmgrafanaopentelemetryKubernetesAWSDockerMonitoring

Kubernetes Resource Lifecycle Management with CronJob-Scale-Down-Operator Jul 27, 2025

KubernetesKubernetes OperatorCronJobFinOpsKubebuilder

Observability 2.0: Breaking the Three-Pillar Silos for Good Jul 6, 2025

MonitoringPrometheusClickHouse

AWS PrivateLink Native Cross‑Region Connectivity Apr 27, 2025

AWSTerraformPrivateLink

Terraform Infrastructure as Code: Essential Tools for Clean, Maintainable Production Environments Mar 6, 2025

AWSTerraform

Helm Charts in Production: Essential Plugins and Features for Reliable Kubernetes Deployments Jan 6, 2025

HelmKubernetesDevOpsIaC

Secure Secrets Management in Terraform — Part2: AWS Secret Manager Dec 25, 2024

AWS Secrets ManagerAWS KMSTerraformDevOps

Secure Secrets Management in Terraform Part1: Leveraging AWS KMS Nov 17, 2024

AWS KMSTerraformSecure Development

Thanos Deep Dive: Addressing Prometheus Limitations at Scale Oct 28, 2024

AWSKubernetesPrometheusThanosMonitoring

AWS Client VPN: A Practical Guide to Secure Infrastructure Access Oct 28, 2024

AWSVPNNetworkingAWS VPC

EKS Pod Identity or IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) ? Sep 15, 2024

AWSTerraform

Exposing Ports in Kubernetes: What You Should to Know Aug 30, 2024

AWSEKSKubernetes

AWS EKS Required Add-Ons: A Comprehensive Guide Aug 11, 2024

AWSEKSKubernetes

AWS VPC Endpoints: Balancing Security, Performance, and Cost Aug 10, 2024

AWSEndpointsAWS VPC

AWS IAM Roles For Kubernetes Service Accounts (IRSA) Jul 27, 2024

AWSKubernetesEKSIAM

Getting Started With OpenTofu (v1.7.0) on AWS — State Encryption. May 4, 2024

AWSOpenTofuTerraform

Low-Cost, Unlimited Metrics Storage with Thanos: Monitor All Your K8s Clusters Anywhere and More. May 3, 2024

AWSMonitoringKubernetesThanos

Chat With Your AWS Resources Using ChatGPT Apr 7, 2024

AWSAWSGPT

Do Pods Really Get Evicted Due to CPU Pressure? Mar 21, 2024

AWSEKSKubernetes

Exploring Steampipe for Terraform Drift Detection Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraformsteampipeDevOps

Welcome to AWS Morocco’s first newsletter! Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraform

How Does AWS PrivateLink Work ? Feb 29, 2024

AWSPrivateLink

AWS Inter-Region PrivateLink using Terraform Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraformPrivateLink

CSI Drivers (EBS, EFS, S3) on EKS And How To Use Them Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraformKubernetesEKS

Lessons Learned From Mounting Secrets to Pods on Kubernetes Feb 29, 2024

AWSKubernetesEKS

Getting Started With Terraform on AWS — State backend & State Locking Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraform

Enhancing Efficiency with KMS Cache in Amazon S3 Buckets Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraformKMS

Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Alertmanager: Setting Up Alerts with Slack Integration Feb 29, 2024

AWSMonitoringKubernetes

All you need to know about Terraform provisioners and why you should avoid them. Feb 29, 2024

AWSTerraform

Submit your articles to Aws Morocco Jan 8, 2024

aws-moroccomoroccoawsAWSDocker

How hackers can find your exposed Elasticsearch clusters using Shodan! Jun 25, 2020

ELK Stack

Machine learning on Elastic Search using Apache Spark and ES-Hadoop — Part 2 May 31, 2020

ELK StackAnalyticsApache Spark

Machine learning on Elastic Search using Apache Spark and ES-Hadoop — Part 1 Mar 11, 2020

ELK StackAnalyticsApache Spark